No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[Originally No. 36 of 1899. No. 5 of 1928. No. 18 of 1929. No. 5 of 1931. No. 11 of 1931. No. 23 of 1932. No. 28 of 1933. No. 6 of 1934. No. 28 of 1935. No. 7 of 1936. No. 46 of 1936. No. 47 of 1936. Law Rev. Ord., 1937.]
No. 10 of 1899.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to merchant shipping.
[19th September, 1903.]
Short title. Interpreta-tion.
[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 742.] Preliminary.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "The Harbour Master" includes any person deputed or authorized by the Harbour Master to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance;
(aa) ...
The operation of this Ordinance is not limited by the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917. See No. 23 of 1917, s. 8. In this Ordinance the following amendments have not been incorporated, viz., those made by the Merchant Shipping (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1934, (No. 25 of 1934), and the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1937, (No. 22 of 1937), which, if and when notice of non-disallowance is received, will be brought into force by proclamation. The text of each of these two amending Ordinances is printed in this edition in its appropriate place among the Ordinances of the year in which it was passed.
"Governor" includes, in relation to any purpose of...
The Regulations formerly contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong.
As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35]. * But see No. 22 of 1937 [Merchant Shipping Amendment], s. 3 (not yet in force on 1.1.1938).