Cancelled
& Substituted
530
Section 38 (1.)
ferday for by G. N. 169/or inkl. p.06.
Passengers on lower deck.
Passengers on upper deck
and cabins.
Proviso
number of
as to
passengers.
Supply of
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1899
A
Iubstituted by G. Festifm: N 420/03 - G. G. p. 15
TABLE F..
SCALE OF MEASUREMENTS OF RIVER STEAMERS TRADING BETWEEN HONG KONG AND CANTON, MACÃO, OR THE WEST River.
1. On lower deck, one passenger for each 6 superficial feet.
2. On upper deck and cabins, one passenger for each 9 superficial feet.
3. The above number is to be further regulated by the surveyor's judgment as to whether the vessel is stable enough for the measurement number of passengers.
4. A sufficient number of life-boats, rafts, and life-buoys, approved by life-boats, etc. Government Marine Surveyor, to be supplied.
Restriction as to decks. Deductions from number of passengers.
5. No passengers to be carried on more than two decks.
6. On the lower passenger deck, one passenger to be deducted for each square feet occupied by cattle or cargo; and on the upper passenger deck, one passenger to be deducted for each 9 square feet occupied by cattle or cargo.
Section 19 (18.) -
TABLE G.
Service of preliminary notice of
Marine Court.
Appendix: Form No. 1.
Service of notice of holding of Court.
GENERAL RULES FOR FORMAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO SHIPPING CASUALTIES OR INQUIRIES INTO MISCONDUCT OR INCOMPETENCY ON THE PART OF OFFICERS.
1. Whenever it is intended to appoint a Marine Court under section 19 to make investigation respecting any shipping casualty or to inquire any charge of misconduct or incompetency on the part of any master, mate or engineer, the Marine Magistrate shall cause a preliminary notice, in the Form No. 1 in the Appendix to these Rules, to be served on the master of the ship or on the person whose conduct or competency is in question.
2. When the Governor has issued a warrant to form a Marine Court to investigate into a shipping casualty or to inquire into any charge of incompetency, or misconduct, the Stipendiary Magistrate appointed as the Presiding Member of the Court shall, in the case of a shipping casualty, cause a notice to be served on the master and on the certificated officers of the ship who were on board at the time of the happening of the casualty, in the Form No. 2 in the Appendix to these Rules, and, in the case of a charge of misconduct or incompetency, on the person whose conduct or competency is in question, in the Form No. 3 in the said Appendix, and in either case in Form No. 4 in the said Appendix on such witnesses as it is considered necessary to call to elucidate the facts of the case.
Appendix:
Form No. 2;
Form No. 4.
Adjudication
in absence of
3. If the master or other person on whom a preliminary notice has been served fails to attend before the Marine Court, the Court, in addition to...