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No. 7 of 1929.
SUNDAY CARGO WORKING.
[Originally No. 7 of 1929.
No. 4 of 1934. Law Rev.
Ord., 1939.]
Short title.
Interpreta-tion.
Prohibition
of Sunday working.
No. 7 of 1929.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the restriction of the loading, working and discharging of cargo on Sunday.
[28th June, 1929.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1929.
2. In this Ordinance-
(a) "Cargo" does not include coal for the ship's bunkers, fuel oil, water or other necessaries for the use of the ship, mails, personal luggage, live stock, ice, meat, fish, milk, cream, bread, confectionery, fruit, vegetables, flowers and other articles of a perishable nature;
(b) "Harbour Master" includes any person authorized or deputed by the Harbour Master to perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance;
(c) "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation, over 60 tons net register, propelled by machinery.
3.-(1) No person shall receive on board, load on, work on or alongside, or discharge from, any ship any cargo on Sunday except under and in accordance with a permit issued by the Harbour Master under this Ordinance.
(2) If any cargo is received on board, loaded on, worked on or alongside, or discharged from, any ship contrary to any of the provisions of sub-section (1), the master, and the owners, charterers (if any) and agents, of that ship shall, without prejudice to the criminal liability of themselves or of any other person, be deemed jointly and severally to have incurred a debt to the Crown, by way of forfeiture, equal to twice the amount of the Sunday permit fee which would have been payable under this Ordinance in respect of that ship.
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The regulations, form of permit and scale of fees formerly contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong.
† As amended by No. 4 of 1934 [6.4.34],
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.