THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 21, 1938.7
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THE SCHEDULE.
PART II.
Load Line and Loading.
Preliminary.
40.-(1) The following ships are exempt from this Part of this Ships Act, namely---
exempt from
(a) sailing ships under eighty tons register engaged solely within Part II. the river trade limits;
(b) ships exempted from this Part of this Act under subsection
(2) of this section;
(c) ships solely engaged in fishing;
(d) pleasure yachts;
(e) junks and other wood ships of primitive build.
(2) The Governor of Hong Kong (hereinafter referred to as "the Governor') may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, exempt from this Part of this Act
(a) any ship plying on international voyages between the near neighbouring ports of two or more countries, if the Governor and the Governments of those countries are satisfied that the sheltered nature and conditions of the voyages between those ports make it unreason- able or impracticable to apply the provisions of this Part of this Act to ships so plying;
(b) any ship plying on any other voyage between near neigh- bouring ports if the Governor is satisfied as aforesaid: .and
(c) any class of steamers under eighty tons register engaged solely within the river trade limits, so long as they do not carry cargo.
41.-(1) Ships which are not exempt from this Part of this Act by virtue of the last foregoing section are hereafter in this Act referred to as "load line ships, and for the purposes of this Part of this Act are divided into the following classes, namely-
(a) international load line ships, that is to say, ships of one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards which carry cargo or passengers; and
(b) local load line ships, that is to say, ships of one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards which do not carry cargo or passengers, and ships of less than that tonnage.
(2) International load line ships belonging to countries to which the Load Line Convention applies, are hereafter in this Act referred to as "Load Line Convention ships."
Marking and Submersion of Loud Lines.
Classifica tion of ships for purpose of Part II.
43.-(1) No British load line ship registered in Hong Kong, being Marking of a ship constructed after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred deck-line and thirty-two, shall proceed to sea unless-
(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line
rules; and
(b) the ship complies with the conditions of assignment; and
(c) the ship is marked on each side with a mark (hereafter in this Act referred to as a "deck-line") indicating the position of the uppermost complete deck as defined by the load line rules, and with marks (hereafter in this Act referred to as "load lines") indicating the several maximum depths to which the ship can be safely loaded in various circumstances prescribed by the load line rules; and
(d) the deck-line and load lines are of the description required by the load line rules, the deck-line is in the position required by those rules, and the load lines are of the number required by such of those rules as are applicable to the ship; and
(e) the load lines are in the position required by such of the load line rules as are applicable to the ship.
and load lines.