MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(e) the owner or agent and the master of the ship, and any person appointed by the owner, agent, or master, may attend at any inspection or survey made in pursuance of this section.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to a Court of Survey and appeals thereto, and in particular with respect to the summoning of and procedure before the court, the requiring on an appeal under section 10 (12) or section 17 (5) (d) or (e) security for costs and damages, and the amount and application of fees.
Table II.
payment of
(3) The court may make such order with respect to the costs of any investigation under this section as it may think fit, and such costs shall be paid accordingly, and shall be recoverable in the same manner as a civil debt under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect in any way the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
PART VI.
REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE WATERS OF THE COLONY AND OF VESSELS USING SAME.
Ports of the Colony.
investigation.
No. 3 of 1890.
Saving of
Admiralty Jurisdiction.
of ports, and
21. The Governor may declare by notification certain places in the waters of the Colony to be ports, and no master of any ship or junk shall, except from stress of weather or some other sufficient cause, anchor at any other place in the waters of the Colony.
Duties of master.
elsewhere.
vessel
and house
22.—(1) The master of every merchant ship arriving within signalling distance of the signal station at Gap Rock or Waglan or Cape D'Aguilar, and intending to enter any port, shall hoist the national colours and the house flag or the number of the ship, and shall keep the same flying while passing the signal station. He shall also hoist the national colours of the ship when entering any port, and shall keep the same flying until the ship has been entered at the Harbour Master's office.
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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