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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 6, 1906.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 576.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
22nd May, 1906.
SIR,-At the instance of the Board of Trade, I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of your Government, and for such publication as may be deemed advisable, the accompanying copies of an Order in Conneil which has been made with respect to the lights and signals of Fishing Vessels.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
I have, etc.,
ELGIN.
AT THE COURT AT ST. JAMES'S,
THE 4TH DAY OF APRIL, 1906.
PRESENT,
LORD CHANCELLOR PRIME MINISTER LORD PRESIDENT LORD PRIVY SEAL EARL CARRINGTON MR. SINCLAIR,
WHEREAS His Majesty was pleased, by His Commission dated the second day of
March, 1906, to nominate and appoint the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Prime Minister, and the Lord President of the Council, in His Majesty's absence from His Realm in Foreign Parts, to hold, on His Majesty's behalf, His Privy Council, and to signify thereat His approval of any matter or thing whereunto they should be so authorized by writing under His Majesty's Sign Manual, and to do further on His behalf any matter or thing for the purposes of the said Commission whereunto they should be authorized in manner aforesaid:
And whereas by Section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, His Majesty is em- powered from time to time on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade by Order in Council to make regulations for preventing collisions at sea:
And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, Her late Majesty was pleased to direct that the regulations contained in the First Schedule thereto (being regulations for preventing collisions at sea) should be substituted for the regulations in that behalf then existing:
And whereas by Article 10 of the said regulations provision was made as to the lights and signals of fishing vessels and boats :
And whereas by Orders in Conncil dated respectively the 30th day of December, 1884, and the 24th day of June, 1885, Her late Majesty was pleased to direct among other things that the said regulations contained in Article 10 as above mentioned should as regards British fishing vessels and boats be modified as is in the said Orders respectively mentioned :
And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 27th day of November, 1896, Her late Majesty was pleased to direct that on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, the said regulations scheduled to the said Order of the 11th August, 1884, except the said Article numbered 10 in such regulations should be annulled and that the regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea contained in the First Schedule to the said Order of the 27th day of November, 1896, should be substituted therefor (with the exception aforesaid) and come into operation as regards British ships and boats:
And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 23rd day of October, 1905, His Majesty was pleased to direct that the said regulations contained in the said Article 10 of the said regulations of the 11th day of August, 1884, should be amended as in the said Order men- tioned:
And whereas the Admiralty and the Board of Trade have jointly recommended to His Majesty that as regards British ships and boats the provisions herein-after set forth referring to lights and signals of fishing vessels shall be substituted for the provisions of the said Article 10 in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, contained as modified and amended as aforesaid: