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Between Victoria and Sham Shui Po or Mong Kok Tsui :-
1st Class,
.15 cents 2nd Class (where third class accommodation is also provided),...10 cents 2nd Class (where no 3rd class accommodation is provided) and 3rd Class :-
before sunset,.. after sunset,
4 cents 5 cents
The licensee of any other ferry or group of ferries may demand and take such fares approved by the Governor in Council as shall be notified in the notice inviting tenders.
Nothing in this regulation shall be deemed to limit the right of a licensee to issue sea- son tickets or punch tickets covering a number of journeys,
15. No passenger may take on any ferry vessel free personal luggage other than small hand-baskets, bags, or parcels, not exceeding two in number no one of which shall exceed 16 pounds in weight or 1 cubic foot in measurement, band, and at the responsibility of the passenger, and shall not occupy any part of a seat, or All such luggage shall be carried by be of a form or description to annoy or inconvenience other
passengers.
16. The licensee may demand and take in respect of personal luggage, other than the said free personal luggage, charges not exceeding the following rates :—
For every box, basket, bag, parcel or piece of luggage-
not exceeding 14 lb. in weight,
5 cents.
exceeding 14 lb. and not exceeding 28 lb., .......10 cents. exceeding 28 lb. and not exceeding 56 lb., exceeding 56 lb.,
...15 cents.
the licensee
such sum as may
think fit.
17. The licensee may demand and take in respect of animals, birds, and articles other than personal luggage charges not exceeding the following rates:-
For every calf, pig, sheep, goat, dog, cat, rabbit,
or other small animal,
For every bird...
For every motor-bicycle,
For every
side
car,
For every perambulator, bicycle, go-cart, or
wheelbarrow,
For any other animal or article,
5 cents.
I cent.
,50 cents.
50 cents.
...20 cents.
....such sum as the licensee may think fit.
18. Save and except the free personal luggage allowed in Regulation No. 15 the licensee shall not be bound to carry any animals, birds, goods, merchandise, minerals, or parcels.
19. The licensee shall exhibit in a conspicuous situation in each class of every ferry vessel a list printed in the English and Chinese languages of all the fares and charges authorised to be taken.
REGULATIONS AS TO PASSENGERS, &C.
20. The purchase of a ticket shall not entitle any passenger to a passage by a particular ferry vessel or to travel in a superior class than that for which the ticket is issued if the class contains its authorised complement.
21. No person shall wilfully obstruct any person acting under the authority of the licensee in the lawful discharge of his duties.
22. No person shall travel on any ferry vessel with intent to avoid payment of his fare or proper charges. All tickets issued in exchange for payment (with the exception of season tickets) must be handed over to be punched by the licensee's collector before embarkation of the passengers. In the cases where no tickets are issued in exchange for payment each passenger shall, before embarking, pass through the turnstile provided on the ferry pier.
23. The licensee shall not carry or attempt to carry passengers in excess of the authorised complement of any ferry vessel.
24. The licensee shall not load any ferry vessel so as to cause dauger to the vessel or persons on board.
25. No person shall travel or attempt to travel in any ferry vessel after being requested to leave it by any servant of the licensee.
26. No person shall trespass on any pier or part of a pier exclusively reserved for a ferry.
27. No person shall alight or attempt to alight from, or enter or attempt to enter, any ferry vessel while in motion or otherwise than by the proper entrances or exits.
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28. All persons holding tickets shall on demand show them and deliver them up to any servant of the licensee.
29. No person shall embark on or disembark from any ferry vessel from or to any sanipan, boat, or other craft.
30. No intoxicated person shall travel or attempt to travel on any ferry vessel.
31. No launch, sampan, boat, or other craft shall make fast to or use or embark or disembark passengers at any pier or part of a pier exclusively reserved for a ferry.
MAINTENANCE OF FERRY PIERS.
32. Piers employed for the purposes of a ferry shall be built (if necessary), adapted, and maintained by the Government. They shall be provided, by the Government, with such barriers, gates, turnstiles, ticket offices, and other superstructure as may be necessary for the efficient working of the ferry.
INSUFFICIENT USER OF A FERRY.
33. If it shall be represented in writing to the Governor in Council by the Harbour Master or by 20 inhabitant rate-payers that the public are not afforded the full benefit of a ferry, the Governor in Council may (if satisfied that prima facie the case is one for enquiry) appoint a person to enquire into the matter and report thereon, and if the truth of the representation shall be proved the Governor in Council may issue an order to the licensee requiring him to provide such a service as will afford to the public the full benefit of the ferry and such order inay prescribe the number of ferry vessels which the licensee shall run and the times at which they shall be run. Every such order shall be posted to the licensee at his last known address and published in the Gazette: Provided that the Governor in Council shall before issuing any such order be satisfied that under good and economical management the prescribed service will be fairly remunerative to the licensee; and that, after the licensee shall have complied with such order for not less than 30 days the Governor in Council may on the application of the licensee revoke or modify any such order.
34. If for the period of three months after the posting of such order and its publica- tion in the Gazette the licensee shall fail or neglect to comply therewith the ferry shall be deemed to have been discontinued and shall be dealt with accordingly.
DISCONTINUANCE OF A FERRY.
35.-(1.) If in the opinion of the Governor in Council the licensee shall have discon- tinued the working of the ferry or any part thereof for a period of fourteen days the Governor in Council may by order declare that the powers and privileges of the licensee in respect of the ferry or part thereof so discontinued shall from the date of the order be at an end and thereupon all the powers and privileges of the said licensee in respect of the said ferry or part thereof shall cease and determine.
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