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Penalty for injuring
lighthouse, etc.
Vessel not to an- chor within 500 Fards of depôt.
Harbour Master to be furnished with particulars of explosives arriving in The Colony,
Master to take vessels to specific place.
Hongkong-Port Regulations, &c.
Damage to Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, Cables, ele.
83.-(1.) Any person who wilfully or negligently commits any
of the following offences :—
(a) injures any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any cables, wires, or other apparatus, either in connection therewith or otherwise; or
(b) removes, alters, injures, or destroys any light- ship, buoy, or beacon or any cables, wires, or other apparatus, either in connection therewith or otherwise; or
(e) rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of any
lightship, buoy, or beacon,
shall in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make regulations necessary for the protection of any telegraph cables or wires, either in connexion with any lighthouse, lightship, buoy or beacon, or otherwise.
PART VIL
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.
36.--(3.) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel, to anchor within 500 yards of any Government Gunpowder Depôt except by permission of the Harbour Master.
(4.) The master, agent, or consignee of every vessel arriving in this Colony, having on board thereof as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives, shall, im- mediately on arrival and before the discharge from the vessel of any of such gunpowder or other explosives, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the the marks of all the packages, and the names of
same, the consignees, if he knows the same.
(5.) The master of every such vessel shall, on arrival, take the same to the Gunpowder Anchorage or to the place which may be pointed out to him by the Harbour
Hongkong Port Regulations, &c.
Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed there- from without the permission of the Harbour Master, until her cargo of explosives has been discharged or for the purpose of going to sea.
(6.) The master of every vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosives, and whilst engaged in the transhipment of the same, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest masthead.
(7.) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosives to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Ilarbour Master.
(8.) The master of every vessel about to take on board as cargo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives shall give notice to the Harbour Master, and shall take the said vessel into the Gunpowder Anchorage or into such other Anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom except for the purpose
or for some of proceeding on his voyage other sufficient cause to bo approved by the Harbour Master.
When red flag
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to be exhibited.
Vassel not to anchor within
500 yards of any other vessel.
Mode of proceeding when explosives are to be exporter,
to be shipped. etc., at night.
(9.) No gunpowder or other explosive shall be ship. No gunpowder ped, landed, or transhipped, within the waters of the Colony, between 6 p.in. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, or between 7 p.n. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except with permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
(17.)-The expression "Gunpowder Anchorage " means the anchorage on the south side of Stonecutters Island to the west of a line from which the White Rock bears North and to the north of a line from which the shears at the Kowloon Naval Yard bear East.
PART XI.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Prosecution of Offences and Procedure.
41. (3.) All offences against this Ordinance, except when otherwise provided, may be heard and determined by any Stipendiary Magistrate, and all penalties and
Gunpowder anchorage.
Trial of offences and recovery of penalties, etc., under the Ordinance.
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