MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(2) "Ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except junks or lorchas not propelled by steam.
(2) "Steamship" means any vessel propelled by steam.
(p) "Tons" and "tonnage" mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage.
(g) "Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation.
PART I.
REGISTRY.
3. (1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with either--
(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or
[(b) rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
(c) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or,
(d) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.
[(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
(8) Every register or certificate, authorised or required by this section, may be proved in any court or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar of Shipping, or other person who may happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor the sum of one dollar; and every document when so proved shall be received as prima facie evidence of all matters therein recited, stated, or appearing.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.