568
(of.................. tons) on Sunday the...............day of
19......
Hong Kong,...............................day of......................
19......
Fee $........
Harbour Master.
THIRD SCHEDULE,
SCALE OF FEES FOR SUNDAY PERMITS,
Register tonnage
400 or under ...
Exceeding 400 but not exceeding 700
...
[s. 5.]
..$ 75
100
700
"J
""
1,000
125
1,000
17
19
1,500
...
150
1,500
33
*
2,000
2,000
175
200
Objects and Reasons.
1. The First Schedule of the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1891, Ordinance No. 1 of 1891, contains the form of permit which must be used under the Ordi- nance. That form recites the previous payment of the permit fee. No power exists in the Ordinance to alter this form, so that it can be altered only by a new Ordi- nauce. Payment of the fee in advance is inconvenient because it frequently happens that a permit which has been taken out is not used. In such a case the holder of the permit is put to the trouble of applying for a refund of the fee, and the Harbour Department and Treasury are put to the trouble of making the refund. It was therefore proposed to pass an amending Ordi- nance so as to allow for the subsequent payment of the permit fee.
2. Under the present Ordinance a practice has grown up of returning an unused permit to the Harbour Office with an endorsement to the effect that the permit has not been used. This is for the purpose of claiming a refund of the fee. There is, however, no penalty under the Ordinance for a false or incorrect endorsement of this kind. It was therefore proposed to include in the amending Ordinance the provision of a penalty for this
purpose.
3. It was subsequently found that other amendments of the Ordinance were also desirable, on the following points :-
(a) Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1891, deals with the hours during which applications for Sunday permits may be made.
This is a matter which would more properly be dealt with by regulation, if indeed it were necessary
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