Government has not send rep disclosed
such convention but I. Hanstaux, any quoting
Section #5. Subsection 1. 6. of the arding
the contends that clause Section 5 by
that subsection does not Sto French
lord's
apily
or other foreign ships which have been properly inspected country.
danhauled in their own
It seems to me that there is good clear to be said for this view of the Board of Trade wish us to ascertain
1
I do not know if it is sound
whose opinion is to be final on the subject but we had better send the whole correspondence to the colony & have When Attorney General's
's new.
C.PL
24. Nov.
The decision the ther
has survey
my Foreign Steamship
and other certificates sufficient
to exempt it from survey under section 5
it from survey regulation Ainame of the Merchant Shipping
1891 where decision is final
with the Governor in Council - (see subs. (1)(b)) - in the case of the "Hanoi" where these papers state that the Agents of the Ship's Master that the ship applied for a survey other than for the purpose of obtaining a certificate.
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if it was a mistake, of treating the ship as liable to survey under section 5 would appear to have originated with the ship's agents and this should be pointed out to C.O. But before we write to the Colony again, I would ask the Board of Trade whether the
J would recommend any and what amend
any section 5(1)(b) of the Hong Kong Ordinance so as to define more clearly what certificate for the purposes of a foreign ship should exempt the ship from survey in the Colony.
theme t, 363 of the Merchant Shipping log4)
and also whether the Ordinance should not provide for the issue by the Atty Gen. to ships exempted from survey under section 5(1)(a) and (b) certificates having the same effect as certificates issued after survey under subsection (1c) of the same section 5
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