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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
Classification of junks.
Regulations Tables T & U.
Definition of master.
Harbour Master's stations.
Anchorages for junks.
PART X.
JUNKS AND OTHER CHINESE VESSELS.
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 "vessel"; unless they are specifically referred to) within the waters of the Colony shall be licensed in the classes and in the forms, and shall pay the fees for such licences, prescribed in Tables T and U in the Regulations, or such other classes, forms and fees as the Governor in Council may substitute therefor respectively.
(2) (a) In this section "master" includes any person for the time being in charge or command of any vessel.
(b) Branch stations of the Harbour Master's office shall be maintained at such places as the Governor may determine, which shall be under the superintendence and control of the Harbour Master, and shall be called Harbour Master's stations.
(c) The Harbour Master shall, with the approval of the Governor, by regulation appoint suitable anchorages in the waters of the Colony to be called anchorages for junks.
The limits of such anchorages shall be as indicated in Regulations, Table S in the Regulations, but may be altered by the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor.
Table S.
Penalty for failure to take out licence.
Licences only in one class.
Trading junk licences.
(3) Every master of a vessel who fails to take out a licence as required by this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(4) No vessel shall be licensed in more than one class without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor.
(5) Trading junk licences shall be issued by the Harbour Master upon payment of the prescribed fee for such periods and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may determine. Such conditions shall be indorsed on or contained in such licence, and the master
As amended by No. 7 of 1936 [1.2.36], No. 47 of 1936 [30.3.37] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.