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Schedule:
Table K.
Penalty for keeping unlicensed boarding-house.
Duties of boarding house keeper.
Certificated officer may lodge elsewhere.
Relief of seamen.
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dollars, and for a second offence may be deprived, if the keeper of house, of his licence as an additional punishment: Provided that, and until such rules are made, rescinded, or varied, the rules in Table K of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall apply. Licences issued under this section shall be terminable on the 30th day of November of each year.
(2.) If any person, not having obtained a licence required by the last preceding sub-section for keeping a boarding-house for seamen, keeps such house, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars; and the fact of more than one seaman boarding or lodging in the house shall be prima facie proof of the keeping of a boarding-house for seamen by such person; but nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent any seaman from having the whole or any part of any house for the residence of himself or his family and boarding himself therein.
(3.) Every licensed keeper of a boarding-house for seamen shall cause daily to be entered in a book, in English, the name and description of each additional seaman who has, on that day, come to board or lodge at his house, and the name of each seaman who has left his house on that day after being a lodger or boarder therein, and such other particulars as the Harbour Master may direct; and every such keeper of a boarding-house shall, on the morning of Monday in each week, send to the Harbour Master's Office a list, copied from his book, of the seamen on that day boarding or lodging in his house, and of the seamen, boarders or lodgers, who left his house on any or either of the intermediate days, and shall also particularize in such list the seamen who wish for immediate employment, and place opposite to the names of those last named the names of the ships from which they were last discharged; and the Harbour Master shall keep the lists as furnished to him constantly in view, and in a conspicuous part of the Mercantile Marine Office, for the convenience of masters of ships requiring men, and shall also post in a similar manner, if required to do so, such notices for the supply of men by masters of ships as the said masters may furnish. Any infraction of this sub-section shall render the boarding-house keeper liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(4.) Nothing in this section shall prevent masters, mates, or engineers of ships from boarding or lodging elsewhere than at a licensed boarding-house.
Distressed Seamen.
7.-(1.) All expenses which may be incurred under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, in the relief of distressed seamen belonging to a ship registered in Hong Kong, who, at the time of such relief being granted, have last served in a vessel...