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opportunity to adopt certain amendments in the law which the working of the present Merchant Shipping Ordinance (26 of 1891) and its amending Ordinances, and the extended requirements of the Port— in connection with our recently added territory, secured to make necessary. Clauses have also been re-arranged to a certain extent upon the lines of the English Act of 1894, for the sake of uniformity.
Now to
The
I propose
to go through the Ordinance calling attention to any material alterations in the law, and I would beg leave, while doing so to call attention to the accompanying printed synopsis of the provisions of the
Ordinance, which shows the corresponding
12 and
— art and sections of Ordinance 26 of 1891, and the English Act of 1894, and which, moreover, shows at a glance
any
new sub-sections, by printing the marginal notes to such subsections in italics!
Section 2. Interpretation clause) The terms, "Vessel"
"Junk" "Loch" and "Foot of the Harbour"
have been added. The definition of "Port"
has been
broadened
The definition
followed
the English Act
of 1894.
The definition of Waters of the Colony,
has been amended so as to meet
The possible requirements of the recently
acquired
territory.