THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1880.
7. The register of every Colonial ship shall be produced once at least every six months to the Harbour Master, who shall endorse the date of such production on such register, upon pain, on failure of such production, of the forfeiture of such register, unless satisfactory cause for such non-produc- tion be shown to the Colonial Secretary.
8. Every register, certificate, endorsement, declaration, or bond authorised or required by this section, may be proved in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, or other person who, for the time being, shall happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor the sum of one dollar; and every do- cument, when so proved as aforesaid, shall be received as primâ facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated, or appearing.
9. The British flag may be used on board of any Colonial ship lawfully possessing a Colonial register.
10. Upon any change of ownership in any Colonial ship registered under this section, such change as aforesaid shall be endorsed upon her register under the hand of the Gover- nor and any change of master shall be endorsed upon the register by the Harbour Master.
11. Every Colonial ship (except Chinese junks or lor- chas) provided with a Colonial register under this section shall be, in every respect, subject to the provisions of part I of this Ordinance and (except where the same are incon- sistent with the terms of this section) to the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and to the Acts amending the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as British ships registered under the said Acts are subject thereto, in the waters of this Colony, or in trading therein or therefrom.
12. Any Colonial register granted under this section shall be in force and effect for one year from the date of such register, and no longer, and such register shall be renewable by endorsement on the same, under the hand of the Gover. nor,
if he shall so think fit. Provided always that whether the register is intended to be renewed or not such register shall be delivered into the custody of the Colonial Secretary five days before the expiration of the year for which it has been granted or in the event of the registered ship being at sea then on her return to the waters of the Colony, and that the owner, agent, or master of any such ship neglecting to comply with the requirements of this provision shall incur a penalty not exceeding $500.
13. No prosecution shall be instituted under this section unless under the fiat of the Attorney General.
CHAPTER II.
REGULATIONS CONCERNING SAFFTY.
Boats for Sea-going Ships.
IV. The following rules shall be observed with respect to boats, rafts and life buoys, that is to say:
(a.) No decked British ship (except ships used solely as steam tugs) shall proceed to sea from this Colony unless she is provided, according to her tonnage, with boats duly supplied with all requi- sites for use, and not being fewer in number nor less in their cubic contents than the boats the number and cubic contents of which are specified in the table marked in the schedule hereto for the class to which such ship belongs: Provided that the Governor may, at the request of the owner, or master, authorise the reduction of the number and the variation of the dimensions of such boats and also the substitution of rafts or other appli- ances for saving life for any such boats, so never- theless that the boats so reduced or varied and the rafts or other appliances so substituted be sufficient for the persons carried on board the ship: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, or at any time here- after, to alter, amend, or repeal the said table marked A, or to make a new table in lien thereof. Every such new table and every alteration, amend-
Production of Colonial regis- ter to Harbour Master every six months. [Ibid, sec. b.]
Colonial regis- ters, c. may be proved by production of originals or copics. Ordinance [No. 9 of 1856, Bec. 2.]
Chinese resi-
dents may use the British fing in Colonial regis- tered ships. [lbid, sec. 1.] Change of
owner or master.
· [Ordinance
No. 4 of 1855, Bec. 9.]
Colonial regis- tered ships to be subject to Merchant Shipping Acts,
Duration of Colonial register. [Ibid, sec. 10.]
Consent to prosccution.
Rules as to bouts and life buoys. (L. S. A., 1854, sec, 292.)
[M. S. A., 1973, suc. 15)
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