THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 15, 1931.
HONG KONG.
No. 11 or 1931.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
15th May, 1931.
An Ordinance to amend further the Merchant
Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
[15th May, 1931.]
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 Merchant Ship- Short title. ping Amendment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1931.
2. Section 4 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, Amendment 1899, is amended by the addition of the following proviso of Ordinance at the end thereof :-
No. 10 of 1899,
Provided further that it shall be lawful and s. 4 (2). shall be deemed always to have been lawful for the Governor in Council to grant special exemp- tion, which may be subject to any conditions he may impose, from all or any of the require- ments of this sub-section in the case of any ship regularly plying between the Colony and Dosing, Swabue (Shanmi), Ping Hoi, Ma Kung, Sha Yu Chung, Nam O, Tip Fuk, O Tau or any other non-treaty port if the master and mate shall have passed a special examination before the Harbour Master and shall be approved by him for service on such voyages.
3. Section 44 of the Mercbant Shipping Ordinance, Amendment 1899, is amended by the deletion of the words "a fee of of Ordinance one dollar" in the last line thereof and by the substitution No. 10 of therefor of the words "such fee as the Governor in 1899, 8. 44. Council shall prescribe".
4. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless Suspending and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is clause. His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and there- after it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclama- tion.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of May, 1931.
N. L. SMITH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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