MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(14) No master or other person in charge of any launch or motor boat shall disobey any lawful order of the Harbour Master.
Disobedience of order of Harbour Master.
(15) This section shall not apply to launches or motor boats which are the property of His Majesty or of any foreign state.
Exemption.
(16) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as exempting launches or motor boats from compliance with the regulations for the prevention of collisions which are in force in the Colony under or by virtue of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 418.
River steamers.
38.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to grant a special licence to any river steamer, specifying the number of passengers which such river steamer may lawfully carry. Such number shall be subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council may direct by regulations.
Special licence to river steamer.
Table F.
(2) Such special licence shall continue in force during the period in which the river steamer holding the same is regularly employed in such capacity; but such licence may be revoked by the Harbour Master on receiving a declaration in writing from any Government Surveyor that the steamer has become unfit to carry the number of passengers authorised by such licence, or on such river steamer either ceasing to be regularly employed as such or being employed otherwise.
Duration of licence.
(3) The owner or master of any river steamer leaving or entering the waters of the Colony with passengers on board exceeding the number authorised by the special licence shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and, in addition, to a fine not exceeding five dollars for every passenger on board in excess of the number authorised by the special licence.
Penalty for excess of passengers allowed by licence.
PART X.
JUNKS AND OTHER CHINESE VESSELS.
licence.
39.-(1) All trading junks, fishing junks, lighters, cargo boats, fish-drying hulks as well as any other hulks, and all small boats other than pleasure boats (all of which, as well as all boats included in the definition of "junk" in section 2, are for the purposes of this section referred to by the term
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
† As amended by No. 25 of 1913 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.