THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MAY, 1889.
No. 18 OF 1889.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council thereof, to extend the provi- sions of the Passengers' Act, 1855, and the Passengers' Act. Amendment Act, 1863, for taking off passengers at sea and for forwarding to their destination passengers who have been brought to the Colony without their own neglect or default, and for defraying the cost thereof to voyages of a shorter distance and duration than mentioned in the said Acts.
LS G. WILLIAM DES VŒUX.
[14th May, 1889.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council
thereof, as follows:-
Title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Short title. Passengers Relief Ordinance, 1889.
2. In this Ordinance unless the context be inconsistent therewith or repugnant thereto the words and expressions Jereinafter mentioned shall have and include the following meanings (that is to say):-
Statute adult shall signify any person of the age of twelve years and upwards or two persons between the ages of one and twelve years.
Passenger ship shall signify every description of sea going vessel whether British Foreign or Colonial carrying upon any voyage to which this Ordinance applies, more than fifty passengers or a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every thirty- three tons of the registered tonnage of such ship, if pro- pelled by sails or than one stature adult to every 20 tons if propelled by steam,
Passengers shall include all persons carried in any pas- senger ship exclusive of the muster, officers, crew and employés thereof.
3. This Ordinance shall apply to voyages of any duration and distance from any of Her Majesty's Possessions to any other place.
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4. If the passengers of any passenger ship shall be taken off from any passenger ship" or shall be picked up at sea from any boat raft or otherwise and if they shall be conveyed to the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Go- vernor or for any other person authorised by him for the purpose to defray all or any part of the expenses thereby incurred.
5. If any passenger of any passenger ship shall without any neglect or default of his own find himself within the Colony such place not being that for which the ship was originally bound nor at which he or the Emigration Com- missioners or any public officer or other person on his behalf may have contracted he should land, it shall be lawful for the Governor or for any person authorised by him for the purpose to forward such passenger to his intended destina- tion unless the master of such ship shall within 48 hours of the arrival of such passenger give to the Governor a written undertaking to forward or carry on within six weeks there- after such passenger to his original destination and unless. such master shall accordingly forward or carry him on within that period.
6. All expenses incurred under the two last sections or either of them by or by the authority of the Governor or other person as aforesaid, including the cost of maintain- ing the passengers until forwarded to their destination, and of all necessary bedding, provisions, and stores, shall become a debt to Her Majesty and her successors from the owner, ́charterer, and master of such ship jointly and severally, and shall be recoverable from them, or from any one or more of
Interpreta-
+18 & 19 Vic. e. 119 s. 2.)
(26 & 27 V. c. 31, £. 3.)
Voyages to whichi Ordi- Dance applies.
Governor may Jy expenses of taking off passengers AL
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CS & 19 V. c. 11, s. 52.)
Governor ny forward passengers if Ingster of Ship fail to do so. (26 & 27 V. c., s. 15
Expenses ** be a Crown debi. (Ibid, 16.)
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