708 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1917.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 561.
Order made by the Governor in Council under Sections 3 and 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance; 1915, Ordinance No. 32 of 1915, on the 27th day of December, 1917.
The following rules are added to the rules made by the Governor in Council under the above Ordinance :-
Ships and aircraft.
Launches and motor boats.
47. No import or export permits shall be required for any ships or aircraft unless such ships or aircraft are being imported or exported as articles of merchandise or for the purpose of being dealt with as articles of merchandise.
48.(1.) In this rule licensed means licensed under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
(2.) No licensed launch or motor boat shall on any one occasion be absent from the Colony for a longer period than five days, except with the permission of the Harbour Master.
(3.) The licensee of every launch or motor boat shall produce his launch or motor boat for the inspection of the Harbour Master at such times and places as the Harbour Master shall require.
(4.) Any notice requiring the licensee of a launch or motor boat to produce his launch or motor boat for the inspection of the Harbour Master may be served on the licensee in any of the following manners:-
(a) by delivering it to the licensee personally;
(b) by sending it by registered post to the licensee at the
address of the owner as stated in the licence;
(c) by delivering it to an adult inmate at the said address; or (d) by delivering it to an adult inmate at the last known address
of the licensee.
Any such service shall be deemed sufficient for all purposes.
(5.) The time appointed in any such notice shall be not less than six clear days after the date of delivery or posting as the case may be.
(6.) No change in the ownership of any launch or motor boat shall relieve the licensee for the time being from the obligation to comply with the provisions of this rule.
(7.) Every present and future licensee of a launch or motor boat.. shall enter into a bond, with two sureties approved by the Harbour Master, in the form in the Schedule hereto, and conditioned, in such sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars as may be required by the Harbour Master, for the due observance of the provisions of this rule.
(8.) No launch or motor boat which should be licensed, but which by reason of the death of the former licensee or for any other cause whatsoever is unlicensed, shall leave the waters of the Colony without the permission of the Harbour Master, and the owner and master of every such launch or motor boat who knowingly permits such launch or motor boat to leave the waters of the Colony without such permission shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against these rules.
of..
Schedule.
- KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that We,
the licensee of the launch " of.
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.are held and firmly bound unto Our Sovereign Lord King George V by the Grace of God of the United
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