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(8.) When any person as aforesaid shall be desirons of Declaration obtaining a Certificate of Colonial Registry for any ship, necessary. such person shall forward to the Colonial Secretary n application therefor, together with a declaration in writing stating that the ship for which such registry is sought is intended to be employed solely in voyagos with China: Provided always, thint should such declaration he false, or the Colonial ship to which it relates not be employed in conformity with it, the registry thereby obtained shall, ipso facto, become unil and void.
As regards the following note by the Board of Trade on sub-section (3) of section 3 of Ordinance 36 of 1899:-
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"Is there any objection to inserting the provision as to forfeiture and penalty as contained in section 67 of The Imperial Act, retaining at the same time the provision that the registry shall become null and void?”
The Harbour Master states:-
The declaration referred to is with regard to the intention of the owner not to trade with the vessel to any other place than China. The declaration in section 67 of The Merchant Shipping Act is with regard to title or ownership. I think it would be sufficient to make the Registry null and void-it is only re-enacting the law in force here since 1855 in this particular.