MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(2) If any owner or person served with such notice as aforesaid neglects, for a period of 24 hours, to extinguish or effectually abate the fire or light therein mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, by his servants or workmen, to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extinguish such fire or light, doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses incurred by the Harbour Master in such extinction may be recovered from such owner or person as aforesaid.
PART VIII.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.
36.-(1) The Governor may provide, at the expense of the Colony, all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder and other explosives.
Vessels and buildings for storage of explosives.
(2) Such vessels or buildings shall be termed "The Government Gunpowder Depôt," and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may be received from the Governor; and such vessels or buildings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may deem expedient.
(3) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to anchor within 500 yards of any Government Gunpowder Depôt, except by permission of the Harbour Master.
Vessel not to anchor within 500 yards of Depôt.
(4) The master, agent, or consignee of every vessel arriving in the Colony, having on board thereof as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives, shall, immediately on arrival and before discharge from the vessel of any of such gunpowder or other explosives, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the consignees, if he knows the same.
(5) The master of every such vessel shall, on arrival, take the same to the Gunpowder Anchorage or to the place which may be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom, without the permission of the Harbour Master, until her cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea.
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.