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PROCLAMATION.
[LS.] RICHARD Graves MacDonnell.
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By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas by the Third Section of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled "An. Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions,” it is provided that the said Act "shall be proclaimed in every British Possession by the Governor "thereof as soon as may be after he receives notice of the said Act, and shall come into operation în "that British Possession on the day of such Proclamation:"
Now, therefore, I, SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Governor of the Colony of Hongkong, do hereby proclaim that the Act, intituled "An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting « Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions," which is herewith published, shall on and from this Day be in force in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.
By His Excellency's Command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 31st Day of December, 1869.
[92 Viet.]
Merchant Shipping (Colonial), 1860. CHAP. II
[Ch. 11.)
An Act for amending the Law relating to the Coasting Trade and Merchant Shipping in British Possessions.
[13th May, 1869.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Preliminary
1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869.”
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
Short title.
Definition of terms:
The term "British Possession" means any territory or place situate within Her Majesty's dominions, British possession:"
and not forming part of the United Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or Isle of Man; and all
territories and places under one legislature as herein-after defined are deemed to be one British possession for the purposes of this Act:
The term "legislature" includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British "Legislature,"
possession, and where there are local legislatures as well as a central legislature, means the central legislature only.
3. This Act shall be proclaimed in every British possession by the governor thereof as soon as may be Commencement of after he receives notice of this Act, and shall come into operation in that British possession on the day of Act.
such proclamation, which day is herein-after referred to as the commencement of this Act.
Cousting Trade.
4. After the cornmencement of this Act the legislature of a British possession, by any Act or Ordinance, Regulation of coasting from time to time, may regulate the coasting trade of that British possession, subject in every case to the trade by colonial following conditions:
legislature.
(1.) The Act or Ordinance shall contain a suspending clause, providing that such Act or Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's pleasure thereon has been publicly signified in the British possession in which it has been passed.
(2) The Act or Ordinance shall treat all British ships (including the ships of any British possession)
in exactly the same manner as ships of the British possession in which it is made.
(3.) Where by treaty made before the passing of this Act Her Majesty has agreed to grant to any ships of any foreign state any rights or privileges in respect of the consting trade of any British possession, such rights and privileges shall be enjoyed by such ships for so long as Her Majesty has already agreed or may hereafter agree to grant the same, anything in the Act or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.
5. The following sections of The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, are hereby repealed; namely, Section three hundred and twenty-eight as from the commencement of this Act:
Sects. 328 and 183 of 16 & 17 Vict. e. 107,
Section one hundred and sixty-three as from the date in the case of each British possession at which repeated.
either an Act or Ordinance with respect to the coasting trade made within two years after the commencement of this Act in such British possession comes into operation, or if there is no such
Act or Ordinance, at which the said two years expire.
Merchant Shipping.
6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, from time to time to declare, with respect Registrars of British
possessions.
to the British possession mentioned in the order, the description of persons who are to be registrars of ships in Britiskt British ships in that British possession, and to revoke any order so made.
After the date specified in the order, or, if no date is specified, after the date of the proclamation of
the order in the British possession, the order shall have effect as if it were contained in section thirty of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.