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3. No Chinese passenger ship to which the provisions
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of this Ordinance shall apply shall clear out or proened ou short voyage as defined by this Ordinance unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a passenger ecitificate granted by the Governor under the provisions of the laws Ir the time being in force relating to Merchant Shipping, or a licence under the land of the Governor and the public scal of the Colony of Hongkong, or under the hand and seat of an Emigration Officer, and unless the master of such ship shall, with two sufficient ruretics to ha approved by an Emigration Officer, have entered into a hod to Her Majesty, her heirs and snecessors in the sum of one thousand dollars, in the form ecutained in schedule A of this Ordinance.
4. Such licence may be either an annual licence for any number of short voyages to and from any specified port or ports, within any period not exceeding twelve months from the date of such licence; or a single licence for any particular short voyage, and may be in the form coutained in schedule B of this Ordinance.
5. The granting of ary licence shall be in the discretion of the Governor or the Enigration Officer, as the case may be, and shall be subject to the payment of the fees specified in the regulations in schedule C of this Ordinance, and to such conditions as roay from time to time be prescribed under instructions from one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and the Governor or Emigration Officer, as the case may be, may impose such conditions on the granting of any licence as he shall think expedient in each particular case, provided the same shall not be con- trary to or inconsistent with such instructions. Any licence may be revoked or cancelled if improperly obtained or for breach of its conditions or of the requirements of this Ordi- nance, or of the regulations contained in schedule C
thereof.
6. The owners or charterers of the Chinese passenger ship in respect of which a licence is desired or, if absent, their respective agents, shall wake application for the same in writing to the Ewigration Officer, and furnish all particulars according to the form in schedule D of this Ordinance.
7. Any person who shall knowingly furnish untrue par- ticulars shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six calendar months, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars either in addition to or in substitution of such imprisonment.
8. The breach of any condition of a licenco granted under this Ordinance or of any regulation contained in schedule C, shall be deemed a breach of a regulation respecting Chinese passenger ships within the meaning of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, and the master of the ship and any other person who may have been guilty of or have aided or abetted such breach shall each lie decmed for each offence guilty of a misdemeanour,
9. Any misdemeanour, or other offence punishable under this Ordinance, shall be dealt with, tried and judged of in the same manner as a misdemeanour or other offence punish- able under The Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and all the rules of law, praetico or evidence appli able to the last mentioned misdemeanours or offences shall be applicable to those under this Ordinance.
10. The provisions of section 15 of The Chinese Passen- gers' Act, 1855, (ns to ovidence, &c.) shall apply to legal proceedings under this Ordinance in the same way as if such proceedings had been taken under that Aet.
11. The provisions of this Orlimaneo shall not apply in the case of a Chinese Passenger ship carrying a less number passengers than in the proportion of one such passenger to every 10 tons of the ship's registered tounge.
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