FERRIES.
No. 28 of 1917.
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(2) Every person who has at any time been entitled to any share in the profits of an illegal ferry shall be deemed to have maintained such ferry during the period in respect of which he was so entitled, and every owner of a ferry vessel, or if the vessel is under charter, every charterer of the said vessel, shall be presumed to have been entitled to a share in the profits of the ferry until he proves affirmatively that he was not entitled to any such share or that such vessel was employed as a ferry vessel without his consent or connivance.
(3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall be construed as relieving from liability any person who, without being himself entitled to any share in the profits of the ferry, maintains any illegal ferry or counsels, procures, aids or abets the maintaining of any illegal ferry.
3.-(1) No person shall without a licence under this Ordinance maintain a ferry in any area to which this section is by any regulation made under this Ordinance declared to apply.
No unlicensed ferry to be maintained in certain areas.
(2) Any such regulation may provide that such declaration shall not have the effect of prohibiting the maintenance of a ferry between any single point or any particular points within the area declared and some point or points outside that area.
4. The issue of any licence under this Ordinance shall be subject to the absolute discretion of the Governor in Council.
Issue of licence discretionary.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes-
(1) for licensing and regulating ferries and ferry vessels;
(2) for defining the conditions of any licence to be issued under this Ordinance;
(3) for prescribing the fees, rent or premium to be paid in respect of any licence to be issued under this Ordinance;
(4) for declaring the areas to which section 3 is to apply;
(5) for excluding from the operation of this Ordinance any specified ferry or any ferry plying to or from any specified point or points within or without the Colony;
As amended by No. 52 of 1935 [6.12.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.