HONG KONG
(1937 REVISION)
No. 10 of 1899.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating to
merchant shipping.
[Originally No. 36
of 1899,
No. 5 of 1928.
No. 18 of 1920.
No. 5 of 1931.
[19th September, 1903.]
No. 11 of 1931.
No. 23 of 1932.
No. 28 of 1933.
No. 6 of 1984.
No 28 of 1935.
No. 7 of 1996.
No. 46 of 1986.
Preliminary.
No. 47 of 1936. Law Rev.
Ord., 1987.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Short title. Ordinance, 1899.
The operation of this Ordinance is not limited by the Boarding-house Ordinance, 1917. See No. 23 of 1917, s. 8. In this Ordinance the following amendments have not been incorporated, viz., those made by the Merchant Shipping (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1934, (No. 25 of 1934), and the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1937, (No. 22 of 1937), which, if and when notice of non-disallow- ance is received, will be brought into force by proclamation. The text of each of these two amending Ordinances is printed in this edition in its appropriate place among the Ordinances of the year in which it was passed.
The Regulations formerly contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong.
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