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Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 17 of the Piracy Prevention Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. of 1914), for the purposes of Section 6 of the said Ordinance, on, the
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1914.
Launches (not exceeding 60 tons) which ply outside the Harbour of Victoria but within the Local Trade Limits.
1. These Regulations shall apply to every launch which has on board any passenger who is being carried for hire or reward and which plies outside the Harbour of Victoria but within the Local Trade Limits.
2. No launch shall commence its voyage or trip except from a place and at an hour previously notified to the Captain Superintendent of Police.
3. The Police shall have power to search every launch and every person and thing on board, and shall also have power to search every person who may apparently be about to go on board a launch and everything which apparently is about to be put on board.
4. No launch shall leave its wharf or moorings until the master has been notified by the Police that the search by them has been completed.
5. No person shall be allowed to embark on and nothing shall be brought on board any launch after the master has been notified by the Police that the search by them has been completed.
6. No launch shall call at any place en route unless such place of call and the intended hour of departure therefrom has been notified to the Captain Superintendent of Police.
7. If the Captain Superintendent of Police shall notify the owners, licensees or master that the Police will conduct a search at any such place of call, Regulations Nos. 3, 4 and 5 shall apply mutatis mutandis to such place of call.
8. If at any place of call no search is conducted by the Police the master shall cause all persons and things there taken on board to be searched by the watchmen.
9. A launch shall be deemed to call at a place if it take on board any person or thing from a boat as well as if it goes alongside a wharf or otherwise moors with a view to embarking or disembarking persons or things.
10. The master and crew shall render every assistance to the Police in their searches and shall use their best endeavours to see that no ammunition or arms are smuggled on board.
11. Every launch shall stop when hailed by the Police.
Launches (not exceeding 60 tons) which ply outside the Local Trade Limits.
1. These regulations shall apply to every launch which has on board any passenger who is being carried for hire or reward except launches which do not ply outside the Local Trade Limits as defined in the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
2. Every launch shall have metal side shields to protect the wheel, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master.
3. If a launch has two decks :--
(a.) It shall have, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, gratings cutting off
the access of passengers from the lower to the upper deck.
(b.) Two watchmen shall keep watch under arms at the gratings.
(c.) No Chinese male passengers, except traders or merchants well known to the
master, shall be allowed on the upper deck.