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7. (1) When the Master of a rank ship shall have made the declaration in rule 5 and offer from if he shall not have produced any such certificate as in the last preceding rule mentioned, the Harbour Master shall cause an officer of his department to go on board the ship to obtain fee to be samples of the petroleum from each compartment or tank.
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(2) The Master shall forthwith deliver to the officer aforesaid without charge samples from each tank or compartment in which petroleum is carried. Such samples shall be deliver sam taken under the personal supervision of the officer aforesaid and in the presence of the Master consiguent time for or Chief Officer of the ship.
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(3) Every such sample shall consist of about forty fluid ounces and every sample shall Quantity of be rapidly transferred from the compartment or tank in which it is stored into a separate bottle to be provided by the said officer.
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(4) When the samples have been delivered to the said officer he shall fasten up, secure Transmiss and label the bottles containing them with the name of the ship and the description or Governote number of the compartment or tank from which each sample has been taken and such other Analyst distinguishing marks as may be necessary in the presence of the Master or Chief Officer of the ship. The Harbour Master shall cause the samples to be forwarded to the Government Analyst.
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(5) The Government Analyst shall test the samples thus received in the manner indic- Testing a ated in the two following sub-rules and shall, as soon as practicable, give a certificate of the? Rasting temperature at which the samples were found to give off an inflammable vapour and shall point." forward such certificate to the Harbour Master.
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(6) The testing of the oil will be conducted with the apparatus known as the Board of Method of Trade Petroleum Test Apparatus and in accordance with the provisions of the Petroleum Act' 1879 (42 and 43 Vic. cap. 47).
(2) No tank ship when alongside the said wharf shall discharge petroleum into any other ship. vessel or junk of any description whatever.
(3) When no tank ship having or being about to take petroleum on board or having recently discharged petroleum is alongside the wharf, the wharf may be used for the purpose of shipping from the said licensed premises petroleum in drums or other vessels of a capacity not exceeding 20 gallons each or for landing empty drums or other vessels of a similar capacity to be taken into the said premises.
13. The discharge or shipment of petroleum from or on any one tank ship shall not occupy more than 24 working hours unless the time has been extended by the Harbour Master owing to stress of weather or accidental cause.
14. Not more than one tank ship shall go or be alongside the wharf at any one time: nor when a tauk ship is discharging or shipping petroleum shall any other ship, vessel or junk of any description whatever be alongside the said wharf or the tank ship.
taken by to sea, shall proceed without delay to the anchorage denoted by the position given in the 3rd 15. After the discharge or shipment of petroleum the tank ship, unless she at once goes charging rule of these Rules and Regulations and she shall not remove from such position until any Petroleum. tank or compartment which has been emptied of petroleum has been thoroughly cleansed and ventilated by the removal of all oil and vapour and unless the special permission of the Harbour Master has been obtained except for the purpose of proceeding to sea or in case of stress of weather.
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16. No tank ship having on board petroleum in bulk or which has recently been dis- charged thereof shall without the permission of the Harbour Master pass through or take up ches had any position in the harbour except as in the last preceding rule mentioned. If the Harbour Master is satisfied that a tank ship has no petroleum on board and that her tanks have been past through thoroughly cleansed and ventilated, he may allow her to pass through the Harbour or take
up such position as he may assign.
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(7) The application of the flashing test shall be inade as directed in schedule one to the applicativement said Act with such modifications as may be called for by the local climatic conditions prevailing at the period at which the testing is made.
(8) The fee for testing each sample shall be two dollars and fifty cents which shall be Fee for t paid to the Colonial Treasurer.
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(9) If the certificate of the Government Analyst certifies that the petroleum in any one Discharge compartment on board a tank ship gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature of less certificat than 73° Falit. the ship with the petroleum on board shall not be permitted to discharge and Geversd shall be ordered by the Harbour Master to leave the waters of this Colony by the route by which she entered, and in all other cases upon payment of the said testing fees and upon obtaining the permission of the Harbour Master, the ship may proceed to the wharf herein. after mentioned and the petroleum may be discharged as hereinafter provided.
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8. The discharge of petroleum imported in bulk from a tank ship and the shipment of Mate petroleum from the licensed premises hereinafter mentioned shall be effected by means of a hose and a wrought-iron pipe between sunrise and sunset. Petroleum so imported shall be pumped into storage tanks and when the ship has finished discharging or shipping petroleum the pipe shall immediately be emptied. When the ship has not finished discharg ing or shipping by sunset, arrangements shall be made by means of a valve or otherwise for effectually preventing any of the oil left in the pipe from escaping.
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9. The wharf immediately opposite the premises licensed for the storage of petroleum Place in in bulk at Taikoktsui British Kowloon shall be the place to which ships having or being about a to take on board petroleum in bulk shall proceed and every ship as aforesaid in proceeding Petrole thereto or therefrom shall, unless special permission to the contrary has been given by the Harbour Master, take the route by way of the passage North of Stone Cutters' Island.
10. During the time that any tank ship is moored or made fast alongside the said wharf Protec two certificated officers of the ship of whom one shall be a deck officer shall remain on board ange and the ship shall be protected on her "off" side by booms of such strength (to be wisd approved by the Harbour Master) and so secured as to fend off any other vessel from possible collision with her.
11. No discharge of petroleum whether mixed with water or not shall be permitted Throwis into the Harbour from any tank ship, or from the licensed premises.
17. Except where repugnant to or inconsistent with these regulations and unless otherwise expressly provided the rules and regulations for the time being in force under The Dangerines Goods Ordinance, 1873, in relation to the movement by land or water and the storage of Dangerous Goods and to the anchorage of ships vessels lighters or boats having or being about to take on board Dangerous Goods within the Colony shall apply to the movement and storage of petroleum in drums or other vessels from the premises in which petroleum in bulk is licensed to be stored and to the anchorage of ships vessels lighters and boats having on board or being about to take on board such petroleum.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
F. H. Max,
Acting Clerk of Councils,
12. (1) Except as hereinafter provided, the wharf shall not be used for pose than the discharge or shipment of petroleum.
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