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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
registry under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts or of section 3 of this Ordinance, & licence shall not be required, unless it is intended that she shall carry passengers for hire.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to grant to the great liese, owner of any steamship not exceeding 60 tons a licence authorising such steamship to ply for hire and carry passengers during such period and subject to such conditions as are named in the licence and to regulations under this section: Provided that no such licence shall be granted unless the intended licensee enters into a bond, together with one or more sureties resident in the Colony and to be approved of by the Harbour Master, conditioned in any sum not exceeding 1,500 dollars for the observance of the conditions of such licence.
Regulations. Table E.
Penelly for Cafrying passengers in EXCESS.
Penalty for
(3) The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for carrying out the provisions of this section.
(4) If any steamship licensed under this section carries within the waters of the Colony more passengers than her licence allows, the owner or master thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 250
dollars.
(5) If any unlicensed steamship not exceeding 60 tons carries unlicensed
within the waters of the Colony more passengers, in proportion to steamship carrying her size, than she would be licensed to carry under the regulations passengers in
under this section, the master thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
AXORSA.
Penalty for steemabip plying with out cortifi. cated master
or engineer.
Table E.
Codus pressure op safety valve.
(6) If any steamship not exceeding 60 tons, whether licensed under this section or not, is under way, whether plying for hire or not, without a master and engineer, each holding either a certificate of qualification recognised by the Board of Trade or a certificate of competency from the Harbour Master as provided by regulations made under sub-section (3), the owner or master thereof shall be fiable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 months: Provided always that the Harbour Master may in his discretion issue the permits provided for in Table E in the case of motor boats.
(7) If any person places an undue weight or pressure on the safety valve of any steamship not exceeding 60 tons, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 months.
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(8) Every steamship not exceeding 60 tons, whether licensed or Es. 37
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a red light on the port side, and a bright white light in the fore part of the ship at a height above the deck not less than 6 feet, and, if the breadth of the ship exceeds 6 feet, then at a height above the deck not less than such breadth, so, however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the deck than 10 feet. These lights shall be constructed, fixed, and fitted as prescribed by the International Collision Regulations. Every such steamship shall, when at anchor, between sunset and sunrise, carry forward, at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the deck, 4 bright white light visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least one mile. Every such steamship shall also be provided with an efficient steam whistle or siren and an efficient bell.
of licence,
(9) The licence granted by the Harbour Master to any steamship Causation under this section may be cancelled by him if at any time the Gov- etc. ernment Marine Surveyor reports to him that from any cause the said ship is unfit for the service for which she is intended, or in the event of the security given under sub-section (2) becoming invalid. It shall also be lawful for the Governor-in-Council at any time, for any ep150 which he may think fit, to suspend, for such time as he may think fit, or to cancel, the licence granted by the Harbour Master to any steamship under this section, and the Har- bour Master shall inform the owner of such steamship accordingly, The owner of any such steamship who refuses or neglects to give up the licence of the said ship, after having been informed by the Harbour Master that the same has been suspended or cancelled. shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or the Government Marine Surveyor at any time to go on board any steamship licensed under this section for the purpose of inspecting the same.
particulars to
(10) The master of every steamship not exceeding 60 tons shall, Report of within 18 hours after arrival in the waters of the Colony, report such arrival and arrival at the Harbour Master's office or at the nearest Harbour be furnished. Master's station, and shall furnish the following particulars which shall be entered in a register to be kept for the purpose:-
(a) the name and capacity of the ship;
(b) the name, address, and description of the owner and master; (c) the name, address, and description of every consignee or agent, if any,
of the ship and cargo in the Colony;
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