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REPORT
on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend
theerchant shipping Ordinance, 1899.
Under sub-section (14) of section 39 of the Merchant
Shipping Ordinance, 1899, which it will be observed now stands in
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re-enacted form by section 4 of the erchant shipping Amendment Ordinance 1911, it is provided that no junk except a licensed
fishing junk which has obtained a Special Permit from the Harbour
laster may leave her anchorage or attempt to 1:ave any port in
the Colony during certain hours of the night. These Special Per-
aits are issued to all such junke es a matter of course and are
seldom if ever réfused; they are issued mothly, twenty-five Cents
being charged for each such perit; of which some forty thousand
annually. are issued mentilly.
The object of the present amendment is to do away with
these monthly permits and to substitute a general Annual Feral t
which will be one of the conditions attached to the ordinary li-
cence of which every junk has to be in possession; the fee of
twenty-five cents per month will be compounded in one payment on
the issue of the ordinary licence. The conditions of the licence
will in the case of fishing junke enable them of course to get under
way at night.
The chief reason for the amendment, proposed to be made is
in order to do away with the creat labour and time occupied in the
issue of these monthly permits. The apparent loss of control over
these fishing junks occasioned by the change will however be more
than counter-balanced by the inauguration of a system of endorsement
on their licences of every entry of these fishing junks into the
waters of the Colony es is done now in the case of trading junks; in
this way a record of the movements of these fishing junks will be
obtained in a manner which is not at present possible. The necessary
alterations in the form of licence and the system to carry out the
necessary endorsements on there licences upon the entry of the junks into the waters of the Colony will be of course arranged for by regulations and departmental action,
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Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.
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Section 2 of the Ordinance amends Section 39 of the
Principal Ordinance in a manner necessary to enable the proposal indicated in paragraph 1 of this report to be effected so far as
the erchant Shipping Ordinances are relative thereto.
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In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excel-
lency the Governor may properly arsent in the name of His Lajesty
and on a behalf.
John & Buchill
Attorney General,
8. 8. 13.