Permit
required for receiving, etc., cargo on Sunday, First Schedule.
Application for Sunday Permit.
Fee for Sunday Permit.
Second Schedule.
Making of regulations.
No. 1. THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG :
[A.D. 1891
3.-(1.) No cargo shall be received on board, loaded, worked, or discharged from any vessel within the waters of this Colony on Sunday unless a permit (hereinafter called a Sunday Permit) from the Harbour Master has been first obtained.
(2.) A Sunday Permit shall be in the form in the First Schedule to this Ordinance.
4. An application for a Sunday Permit may be made at the Harbour Master's Office on any week day, and, if not made till the Saturday preceding the Sunday for which the permit is required, the application must be made not later than 5 p.m., unless some other hour is fixed by any regulations made under this Ordinance.
5.-(1.) Unless and until such fee is altered by any regulations made under this Ordinance, there shall be payable for the grant of a Sunday Permit the sum mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance.
(2.) Such fee shall be paid to the Harbour Master and be accounted for by him to the Colonial Treasurer, to be applied for the purposes of the general revenue of the Colony:
6.(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to make, and, when made, to alter, amend, or revoke, regulations as to the fees to be taken for the grant of Sunday Permits and the hours within which applications for such permits may be made, and by such regulations to impose conditions on the grant of such permits to fix the hours for working under them.
(2.) Such regulations shall be published in The Gazette and shall thereupon come into force on such day as may be therein declared and have the same validity as if they were contained in this Ordinance.
7. Where any cargo is received on board any vessel or loaded, worked, or discharged contrary to the provisions of section 3, the master of such vessel, and, if he leaves the Colony before conviction, then the agent and the consignee of such vessel, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be severally liable to a penalty not exceeding one thousand dollars or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month.
8. The person in charge of every steam-launch, sampan, junk, or other boat assisting, by the carriage of cargo or otherwise, in any contravention of section 3 shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days.