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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9гH MAY, 1891.
J'ermit required for loading, &e on Sunday.
Application
for Sunday Pernic.
Fee font Funday
Pamir
Regulation1- may be made,
No.
Penalty for infringing Section 3.
Penalty for Assisting in such infringement.
Commoner- men: of ordinames.
3. No cargo shall be received on board, loaded, worked or discharged from any vessel, within the waters of this Colony on Sunday, unless a "Permit" from the Harbour Master has been first obtained. Such permit shall be in form (1) in the Schedule to this Ordinance.
4. Applications for such Sunday Permits may be made at the Harbour Master's Office on any week day, and if not made till the Saturday preceding the Sunday for which the Permit is required such application must be made not later than 5 r.M. unless some other hour shall be fixed by the Regulations hereinafter provided for.
5. Unless and until such fee is altered by the Regula- tious hereinafter provided for, there shall be payable for the grant of a Sunday Permit the sum mentioned in form (2) in the Schedule to this Ordinance. Such fee shall be paid to the Harbour Master and be accounted for by him to the Treasurer to be applied for the purpose of the general
revenue.
6. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make from time to time, and when made to alter, amend or revoke Regulations as to the fees to be taken for the grant of Sun- day Permits and the hours within which applications for such permits may be made and by such Regulations to impose conditions on the grant of such permits and to fix the hours for working under them.
Such Regulations shall be published in the Gazette and shall, thereupon, come into force on such day as may be therem declared and have the same validity as if they were coutained in this Ordinance.
7. Where any cargo is received on board any vessel or loaded, worked or discharged contrary to the provisions of Section 3 of this Ordinance, the Master of such vessel, and if he shall leave the Colony before conviction then the Agent and the Consignee shall be severally liable on sum- mary conviction before a Police Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $1,000, or in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one month..
8. The person in charge of every steam-launch, sampan, junk or other boat assisting, by the carriage of cargo or otherwise, in any contravention of Section 3 of this Ördi- nance shall be liable on summary conviction before a Police Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding $50 or in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 days.
9. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st August, 1891.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 5th day of May, 1891.
Į
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 6th
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day of May, 1891.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial secretary ·
SCHEDULE.
Form 1.
SUNDAY PERMIT.
Under Ordinance No. of 1891 (The Sunday Cargo-
Working Ordinance).
having been duly paid, permission is hereby the Agents the Master [ the Consignee to receive on board, load, work ] vessel named and discharge cargo on and from the [*
within the waters of this Colony on Sunday, the
between the hours of [
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A. B., Harbour Master.
N.B.Curgo-working on Sunday without a Permit is punishable by fine or im- prisonment in default of payment under The Sunday Caryo-Working Ordi- nance, 1891.
Form 2.
Scale of Fees for the grant of Sunday Permits.
Registered Tonnage—
400 or under,
Over 400 but not exceeding 700,
700
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1,000
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1,500
»: 2,000,
>;
75
100
>>
1,000,
125
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1,500,
150
"
2,000,
175
200