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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 344.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 4th September, 1930:-
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A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
Licensing
of pilots.
2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 31, s. 16.
Ordinance
No. 3 of 1904.
Regulations.
An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the
employment of pilots.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pilots Ordi- mance, 1930.
2. In this Ordinance "ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation, over 60 tons net register, propelled by machinery.
3.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinanec, the Harbour Master may license pilots for the waters of the Colony,
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 8, every pilot's licence shall remain in force until the 31st day of December next following.
(3) The Harbour Master shall keep a register of the Lames and addresses of pilots licensed under this Ordi-
nance.
(4) Every licensed pilot shall furnish to the Harbour Master an address within the Colony to which all com- munications may be sent and shall forthwith notify the Harbour Master of any change of such address.
(5) No person shall be licensed as a pilot who is not a British subject, provided that this prohibition shall not apply to any person who, immediately before the commen- cement of this Ordinance, was the holder of a pilot's licence under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904, or to any person who may be specially exempted by the Governor in Council from the provisions of this sub-section,
4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes :—-
(a) for the licensing and regulation of pilots; (b) for prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of licences and examinations required under this Ordinance, the remuneration to be paid to exam- iners, and the amounts to be paid to licensed pilots in respect of pilotage services (in this Ordi- nance referred to as 64
'pilotage dues") and in respect of other matters;
(c) for any other purpose which the Governor in Council may think desirable in connexion with the provision or regulation of a pilotage service.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, he deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.