THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPT. 7, 1906.
of sub-
(28.) Every master of a junk who shall refuse or fail Penalty for to comply with the provisions of sub-section (7) or (9) of infraction this section, or knowingly give untrue particulars con-
section (7) cerning the information which he is thereby required or (9). to furnish, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months.
infraction of
(29.) Every master of a junk violating the provisions of Penalty for sub-section (11) or (12) of this section shall be liable to a sub-section penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprison- (11) or (12). inent with or withour hard labour for any period not ex- ceeding six months, and such junk and her cargo may, in the discretion of the Magistrates, be forfeited to the Crown. It shall be lawful for any officer or constable of the Police or Harbour Departinent to arrest within the waters of the Colony any junk or other Chinese craft leav- ing or attempting to leave her anchorage, or which he has good reason to believe had left her anchorage or any port of the Colony between the hours aforesaid.
deemed in fault for
collision.
(30.) If in any action brought in any Court of the Co- Junk not lony, in respect of a collision occurring between sunset and carrying sunrise, in or outside the waters of the Colony, between a lights to bo junk and another vessel, it is proved that such junk did not carry either the light prescribed for sailing vessels by the International Collision Regulations or the lights pres- cribed for junks by sub-sections (1) and (2) respectively of section 25 of the Principal Ordinance as amended by sec- tion 11 of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1995, then such junk shall be deemel to be in fault, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the circum- stances of the case made the omission to carry such lights necessary.
Objects and Reasons.
By this Ordinance provision is made for the prevention of obstruction of vessels and for the better regulation of junks and other vessels employed in the same or similar
nanner as a junk.
HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney tirneral,
A BILL
ENTITLED
AN Ordinance to amend the New Territories Land Ordinance, 1905.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follow's :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the New Territories Short title Land (Amendment) Ordinanes 1993 and shall be read and and con construed as one with the New Territories Land Ordinance struction. 1905 hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.
2. Sub-section 2 of section 2 of the Principal Ordinance. Repeal of is hereby repealed and the following sub-section is sub- sub-section 2 stituted instead thereof :--
of section 2 of the Principal Ordinance
*(2) "Land includes land covered by water or
within the flow of the sea, and houses and other and new buildings, and any nudivided share in land and sub-section every estate and interest in land, and also includes substitute i any rent and any profit issuing out of land and therefor. any casement affecting laud."
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Ordinance is to attach a clear and more comprehensive meaning to the word “jand as used
in the New Territories Land Ordinance 1905 and to remove a doubt that at present exists whether rent is included, as was intended, in the word "land" within the meaning of the Ordinance.
HENRY S. BERKELEY,
Attorney General,
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