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Anchorage pass..
Prohibition of junk leaving or removing without clearance or special permit.
Prohibition of sailing at night.
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG [A.D. 1880
7.) On compliance with the provisions of the last preceding sub-section, the master shall receive an "anchorage pass," and shall forthwith pay the prescribed fee for the same, and, in default of payment thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars.
(8.) No licensed junk shall leave any Port of the Colony, and no other junk shall leave any anchorage for junks, without a clearance or special permit, unless the safety of the vessel (through stress of weather) renders it necessary to do so, and in such case she shall return to her former anchorage or place in port when such necessity for leaving it has ceased.
(9.) No junk or other Chinese craft, whether licensed or not, shall leave her anchorage or leave or attempt to leave any Port of the Colony between the hours of six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning from October to March inclusive, or between the hours of seven o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning from April to September inclusive, except in the case of a licensed fishing junk or fishing-boat which has obtained a permit from the Harbour Master.
Hoisting of flag before departure
Granting of special permit to master of junk.
Penalty for unlawfully using licence,
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(10.) The master of every junk, whether licensed or not, about to leave her anchorage, at any Port of the Colony, shall, where practicable, eighteen hours before the time of the intended departure of such junk, hoist at the highest masthead such flag or signal as may from time to time be specified by the Harbour Master, and shall also give notice of such intended departure and the nature of the proposed voyage, together with the general character of cargo and particulars of any arms, ammunition, and other such articles on board, at the Harbour Master's Office or Station, as the case may be, at which the anchorage pass of such junk may have been granted; and he will thereupon, if there is no reasonable objection and on payment of the prescribed fee, be furnished with clearance in exchange for the anchorage pass of such junk, and, if a licensed junk, the licence thereof will be returned to him: Provided always that, in case such junk does not leave her anchorage within twenty-four hours thereafter, the master shall report the same at the Harbour Master's Office or Station, as the case may be, and the reason thereof, and shall, if required to do so, return the said clearance, and, if a licensed junk, also re-deposit the licence thereof.
(11.) The Harbour Master, or the officer for the time being in charge of any Harbour Master's Station, may from time to time, on payment of the prescribed fee, grant to any master of a junk a permit, to be called a "special permit," which shall be a sufficient warrant or authority for the doing of any act mentioned in such permit.
(12.) No licence, anchorage pass, clearance, or special permit shall be used in respect of any junk other than the junk therein specified or for any purpose or for any period of time other than the one therein specified.
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