No. 146.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH SEPTEMBER, 1873.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following By-Laws made by His Excellency The Governor in Council, in pursuance of Section VIII of Ordinance No. 8 of 1873, ("The Dangerous Goods Ordinance"), are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th September, 1873.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary. ·
By-Laws made by the Governor in Council, pursuant to "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873."
1.-Any Vessel arriving at this Port having on board any of the Goods specified and included in Sections V and VI of the said Ordinance, or any other Substances declared to be dangerous in and by Order of the Governor in Council in force for the time being, made in pursuance of Section VII any of the said Ordinance, and any Vessel about to take on board any such Goods and Substances for exportation, shall hoist a Red Flag at the Fore-top-gallant Mast-head, and shall keep it flying until such Goods or Substances are removed from or received into the Vessel.
2. Every such Vessel as aforesaid shall anchor at such place in the Harbor as shall be pointed out by the Harbor Master, or his Deputy; but such Anchorage shall not be within Five hundred Yards of any other Vessel.
3. The landing, embarking, or transhipment of any of the Goods or Substances aforesaid shall not take place between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M., from October to March both inclusive, nor between the hours of 7 P.M. and 5 A.M., from April to September both inclusive, without the written permission of the Harbor Master.
4. When any of the Goods or Substances aforesaid are being landed, embarked, or transhipped, they shall be conveyed in a covered Boat, on board of which there shall be no lights or fires; and the Boat carrying such articles shall display a Red Flag.
E. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils,
Approved in Council,
A. E. KENNEDY, Governor.
EXTRACT
From "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873,"
V. The Goods commonly known as Petroleum, Nitro-Glycerine Certain Goods or Glonoine Oil, Gun Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Dynamite, and Articles to Lithofracteur and Horsley's Patent Blasting Powder shall be be deemed dangerous. deemed to be Dangerous Goods within the Meaning of this [29 & 30 Vic.
Ordinance.
c. 69, s. 1.]
VI. For the Purposes of this Ordinance, the Terin "Petroleum" Definition of includes Kerosene Oil, Rock Oil, Rangoon Oil, Burmah Oil, Oil Petroleum. made from Petroleum, Coal, Schist, Shale, Peat, or other Bitumi- [34 & 35 Vic., nous Substance, and any Products of Petroleum, or any of the c. 105, 9. 3.]
above mentioned Oils.
V 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from Time Application of to Time to make, revoke, and vary Orders declaring that any Ordinance to Substances, other than those enumerated in Section V, shall be other
Substances. deemed to be Dangerous Goods within the Meaning of this Ord-
[34 & 35 Vic., inance, and during the Continuance of the Order, this Ordinance c. 105, s. 14.] shall apply to the Substances specified therein, and shall be construed and have Effect as if throughout it such Substances had been included in the Enumeration of Dangerous Goods contained in Section V, subject to the following Qualifications:-
(1.) The Quantity of any Substance to which this Ordinance is directed by Order of the Governor in Council to apply, which may be kept without a License, shall be such Quantity only as is specified in that Bébalf in such Order, or if no such Quantity is specified, no Quantity may be kept without a License;
(2.) The Label on the Vessel or Package containing such
Substance shall be such as may be specified in that Behalf in the Order:
Provided always that no such Order of the Governor in Council, nor any Revocation or Variation thereof, shall come into Force mutil the same shall have been published in the Gazette.