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Rules as to procedure, fees, etc.
Schedule: Table H.
Power to
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(d.) the Court shall have the same power as the Governor has to order the ship to be released or finally detained, but unless a majority of the members of the Court concur in an order for detention of the ship, the ship shall be released; and (e.) the owner or agent and the master of the ship, and any person appointed by the owner, agent, or master, may attend at any inspection or survey made in pursuance of this section.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make rules for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to a Court of Survey and appeals thereto, and in particular with respect to the summoning of and procedure before the Court, the requiring on an appeal, under section 17 (5.) (d.) or (e.), security for costs and damages, and the amount and application of fees: Provided that unless and until other rules are made, the general rules in Table H of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.
(3.) The Court may make such order with respect to the costs of investigation under this section as it may think fit, and such costs shall be paid accordingly, and shall be recoverable in the same manner as a civil debt pursuant to the provisions of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
Saving of Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
(4.) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect in any way the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Colony.
PART VI.
Table W
REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE WATERS OF THE COLONY AND OF VESSELS USING THE SAME.
C.N. 720/03.4.4.4.1856
Declaration of Ports, and
Ports of the Colony.
21. The Governor may from time to time, as he may see fit, declare by notification in The Gazette, certain places in the waters of the Colony to be Ports of the Colony; and no master of any ship or junk shall, except from stress of weather or some other sufficient cause, anchor at any other place in the waters of the Colony.
Duties of Master.
22.-(1.) The master of every merchant ship arriving within signal distance of the signal station at Gap Rock or Cape D'Aguilar, and intending to enter any Port of the Colony, shall hoist her National Colours and her house flag or her number, and shall keep the same flying while passing the signal station. He shall also hoist her National Colours when entering any Port of the Colony, and shall keep the same flying until the ship has been entered at the Harbour Master's Office.
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