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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1883.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 58.
TIDE TABLES.
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Tide Tables for the Port of Hongkong for 1883 may be obtained on application at the Harbour Office. Price, 25 cents each.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1883.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 59.
COLONIAL COURTS OF INQUIRY.
The following Act is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1883.
FREDERICK STewart,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
(45 & 46 VICTORIA.)
CHAPTER 76.
An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880, with respect
to Colonial Courts of Inquiry.
[18th August 1882.]
A.D. 1882.
WHEREAS it is expedientes held in British post stopping Acts; 1854 to 1.880, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.
with respect to Inquiries held in British possessions abroad into charges of &c. incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers of ships, or into shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Colonial Inquiries) Act, 1882. Short title.
2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, Construction of Act. and the Acts amending the same, and the said Acts and this Act may be cited collectively as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1882.
jurisdiction
3. Every court or tribunal which is already authorised or which may hereafter Colonial courts or be authorised by the legislative authority in any British possession to make inquiry in to make into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters, mates, or engineers inquiry into charges of ships, or as to shipwrecks or other casualties affecting ships, shall in the cases following; that is to say,
of misconduct or incompetency and shipping casualties in certain cases occurring outside the
I. When the incompetency or misconduct has occurred on board of a British ship limits of the colony.
on or near the coasts of the British possession or on board of a British ship in the course of a voyage to a port within the British possession:
II. When the incompetency or misconduct has occurred in any part of the world
on board a British ship registered in the British possession:
III. When the shipwreck or casualty occurs to a British ship on or near the coasts of the British possession or to a British ship in the course of a voyage to a port within the British possession: