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[s. 39 contd.]
Table T.
Vessels not to leave without clearance or permit.
No junk to leave at night.
etc.
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
act mentioned in such permit. Such special permit may authorise a trading junk licensed to trade only within the waters of the Colony to leave the waters of the Colony for one voyage only. The special permits shall be in the form of entry in the junk's pass book as shown in Table T of the schedule.
(13) No vessel shall leave any port in the Colony without a clearance or permit, unless the safety of the vessel (through stress of weather) shall render it necessary, and in such case she shall return to her former anchorage or place in port when such necessity shall have ceased.
(14) No junk shall leave her anchorage or attempt to leave any port between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, nor between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except in the case of a licensed fishing junk which has obtained a special permit from the Harbour Master.
Penalty for
(15) No licence, special permit, or receipt shall be used in unlawfully using licence, respect of any vessel other than the vessel therein specified, or for any purpose or for any period of time other than as therein mentioned, and any master of a vessel who shall knowingly use or attempt to use any licence or special permit which shall not have been lawfully obtained, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 months: and every vessel in respect of which a licence or special permit has been used or attempted to be used in violation of this sub-section may, either with or without the cargo thereof, and whether the master has been brought to trial or not, at the discretion of the Court, be forfeited.
Licences to other vessels.
Junks and other craft
(16) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to grant to any vessel other than a junk a licence, in like manner and in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5), when it appears to him that such vessel is to be employed in the same or a similar manner as a junk, and such vessel shall, so long as the said licence is in force, be considered for all purposes of this Ordinance to be a junk. For any such licence the same fee shall be paid as for a junk.
(17) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order vessels to be subject to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct, or to prohibit their anchoring or securing in any particular place, or to order them to remove to any other place.
to orders of
Harbour Master.