AD. 1899.]
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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(3) All costs and expenses charged or incurred under Regulation No. 16 of the said Table L may be recovered in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court at the suit of the Colonial Treasurer.
Recovery of costs and expenses.
Fairways.
24. No vessel of any description, whether a ship of war or otherwise, shall be allowed to anchor within any fairway which is set apart by the Harbour Master for the passage of vessels; and the master or other person in charge of any boat or other vessel dropping anchor in or otherwise obstructing such fairway shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month.
Fairway to be kept clear.
Safety of Ships and Prevention of Accidents.
25. Every junk, when under way within the waters of the Colony, shall, from sunset to sunrise, cause to be exhibited, at a height not less than twenty feet above the hull, a bright white light, visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile, and for each omission or neglect to do so the master or person for the time being in charge shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(2.) Every ship, hulk, junk, or other vessel, (not being a boat propelled by oars), being at anchor, or at moorings, or alongside any wharf in the waters of the Colony, shall, from sunset to sunrise, if under one hundred and fifty feet in length, carry forward where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a bright white light, visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile, and, if of one hundred and fifty feet or upwards in length, shall carry such light at a height not less than twenty and not exceeding forty feet above the hull and, in addition, a similar light at or near the stern, at such a height that it shall not be less than fifteen feet lower than the forward light, and in default the owner or master shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(3.) In the case of Police assistance being required on board any ship, owing to an outbreak of fire or to a riot or disturbance which the master and his officers are unable to quell, if by day, the signal flag S of the Commercial Code shall be hoisted, and, if by night, three lights in a vertical line, the highest and lowest red and the middle light white; the day signal may be supplemented by the signal NM "I am on fire," or YF "Want assistance-Mutiny," and the night signal by a "Flare-up" every minute in the case of fire or "Blue Lights" in the case of disturbance. A continuous sounding with any fog signal apparatus may, in addition, be adopted to attract attention in either case.
Lights on junk.
Sec:13
ord: 2
Repealed & substituted by Order 5 of 1905
Ship to exhibit light at night. Art. 11 of Collision Regulations.
Precaution in case of fire or disturbance.