MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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this Ordinance, any person authorized by the Governor for that [s. 2 contd.] purpose;
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(b) 'International Collision Regulations' means the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea made under the Merchant Shipping Acts;
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(c) 'Junk' includes lorcha and any sea-going sailing-vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction, and rig;
(d) 'Local trade limits' means the waters surrounding the Island of Hong Kong within the following boundaries:-
On the east a north and south line drawn through the Fo tau mun Pass (Fat T'au Mun);
On the west—a north and south line drawn through the Kap shui mun Pass; and
On the south—an east and west line drawn through the centre of Lo Chau or Beaufort Island, and continued until it meets the east and west boundaries;
(e) 'Lorcha' includes any sea-going sailing-vessel of European build and construction, but of Chinese or other Asiatic rig, or of Chinese or other Asiatic build and construction, but of European rig;
(f) 'Magistrate' includes a marine magistrate;
(g) 'Master' includes every person (except a pilot) having command or charge of any ship;
[cf. No. 41 of 1932, s. 6.]
(h)* 'The Merchant Shipping Acts' means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and all Acts amending the same, and all regulations made thereunder;
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
(i) 'Motor boat' means any vessel not exceeding sixty tons propelled by any mechanical power however applied, except steam, oars, or sails;
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22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 33.
(j) 'Passenger' includes any person carried in a ship other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants and persons on board the ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance which
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 267.
* But see No. 25 of 1934 [Merchant Shipping (No. 2) Amendment], s. 2
(not yet in force on 1.1.1938).