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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5TH AUGUST, 1876.
VOL. XXII.
No. 32.
No. 146.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Native Passenger Ships Act, 1876, of India, received from The Right Honourable The Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st August, 1876.
ACT No. VIII of 1876.
PASSED BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
(Received the assent of the Governor General on the 28th March, 1876).
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Native Passenger Ships. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to Native Passenger Ships; It
is hereby enacted as follows:-
CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARY.
1. This Act may be called "The Native Passenger Ships Act, 1876.”
2. It extends to the whole of British India, and applies—
Preamble.
Short title. Extent and application
(a) to all subjects of Her Majesty within the dominions of Princes and States in India in alliance of Act. with Her Majesty;
(b) to all Native Indian subjects of Her Majesty without and beyond British India; and,
(e) subject to the exceptions mentioned in the subsequent part of this section, to vessels carrying
more than thirty passengers, being Natives of Asia or Africa.
Nothing herein contained applies--
(d) to any Ship-of-War or Transport belonging to, or in the service of, Her Majesty;
(e) to any Ship-of-War belonging to any Foreign Prince or State;
(f) to any sailing-vessel not carrying as passengers more than thirty Natives of Asia or Africa;
(g) to any steamer not carrying as passengers more than sixty of such Natives;
(h) to any sailing-vessel or steamer not intended to convey passengers to or from any port in British India.
3. This Act shall come into force on such day as the Governor General in Council directs by notifi- cation in the Gazette of India.
4. On and from that day the Acts specified in the schedule hereto annexed shall be repealed. But all ports, places and officers appointed, and all certificates granted, under any of such Acts, shall be deemed to be respectively appointed and granted under this Act;
and the last clause of section one of Act No. II of 1860 (to amend the law relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea) shall be read as follows:-
"Voyages from ports in British India to ports in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, under the Native Passenger Ships Act, 1876."
5. In this Act-
the expression "Magistrate" means a person exercising powers not inferior to those of a Magistrate of the second class, and includes a Justice of the Peace, and, at the Port of Aden, the Political Resident and his Assistants:
ship:
the expression "ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars: the expression "Master” includes every person (other than a pilot) having command or charge of a
Commencement.
Repeal of Acts,
Interpretation-clause.
"Magistrate."
"Ship." "Master."