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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[s. 10 contd.] ance with that requirement by ships so engaged is impracticable and to the extent that he is so satisfied that modifications are required by the conditions of the trade:
[cf. 22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 1 (1) (a).]
[ef. 22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 1 (1) (7).]
Penalty for wrongfully
receiving or offering fees.
[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 724 (4).J
Owner to
made by sur- veyor, and surveyor to give certain
Provided that the Governor may—
or
(a) treat any passenger ship constructed before the 1st July, 1931, (not being a ship converted to passenger service on after that date) as complying with any such requirement if he is satisfied that such steps, if any, as are reasonable and prac- ticable have been taken to make the ship comply with that requirement; and
(b) modify, as respects any ship plying on short inter- national voyages, any of the requirements of the regulations relating to construction, made under this sub-section, which implement the provisions of the said Safety Convention con- tained in Regulations IX, X, XV and XIX thereof, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that that requirement is neither reasonable nor practicable in the case of that ship. Until such instructions and regulations are issued or made by the Governor in Council under this sub-section the Government surveyors shall execute their duties in accordance with the Instructions to Surveyors issued by the Board of Trade.
(7) Every surveyor who demands or receives, directly or indirectly, from the owner, agent or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance or from any other person, and every such owner, agent, master or other person who offers or gives any fee or remuneration whatsoever (other- wise than is permitted by this Ordinance) to any such surveyor for or in respect of such survey shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(8) The owner, agent or master of every passenger ship have survey being within the waters of the Colony shall, where such ship comes within the meaning of this section, cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of the Government surveyors, who shall declarations thereupon, if satisfied that it can properly be done, give to such
owner, agent or master declarations as follows:-
as to hull and equip-
ments.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 272.
(a) a declaration of a Government ship surveyor containing statements of the following particulars :—