Interpre- tation in this Part.
Passenger
ship to be
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tation, although no such representation has been taken out, and shall be thereby discharged from all further Hablity in respect of the residue so paid or delivered; or (c) he may, if he thinks fit, require representation to be taken out, and pay and deliver the residue to the legal personal representative of the deceased; or
(d) where it appears to the Director that any person to whom any money or other property of a deceased seaman may be paid or delivered as aforesaid is resident in a foreign state, he may pay or deliver the money or property to a consular officer of that state on behalf of that
person.
[88(1)
(3) Any person to whom any such residue is paid or delivered under subsection (2) shall apply the same in due course of administration.
PART VL.
Survey of Passenger and Other Ships and
CERTIFICATEs Thereof.
[88(2)
22. In this Part, "passenger ship" means every ship exceeding sixty tons register carrying passengers from, to, or between places in the waters of the Colony except such as ply solely as ferries between two or more points within the Colony.
[10(1)
23. (1) Every passenger ship which carries more than twelve passengers shall be surveyed once at least in each year in once a year. the manner provided in this Part.
Aurveyed
Pr. Act.
8.271 (1)
(x).
22 Geo. 5.
c.9, .36.
(2) This section shall not apply to-
[10(2)
inter-
(a) safety convention passenger ships plying on
national voyages which hold valid certificates issued by a safety convention country other than Hong Kong; or (b) .other British ships which, from within the Common- wealth, have passenger certificates or survey or other -certificates equivalent to those required under this Part, the same being in force and applicable, and which have been issued under the provisions of the Merchant Ship- ping Acts or any enactment in force in any part of the Commonwealth; or
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to clear
(c) other foreign ships which from their own country or from the country from whose flag they have been trans- ferred or from any part of the Commonwealth, have passenger certificates or survey and other certificates equivalent to those required in the case of British ships: Provided that in the event of any question arising as to the sufficiency of any foreign certificate to protect the ship holding the same from survey under this Part, such question shall be referred for settlement to the Governor in Council, whose decision thereon shall be final. [10(2) 24. No passenger ship which carries more than twelve Passenger passengers shall clear outwards or proceed on any voyage from ship not the Colony unless the master has the certificates as to survey without required under this Part, the same being in force and applicable certificate.
Pr. Act, to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed, or in the 3271. case of a foreign ship certificates equivalent to those required in the case of a British ship. Any passenger ship attempting to go to sea may be detained until such certificates as aforesaid are produced to the Director.
[10(3) 28. (1) The Governor may appoint such number of fit and Appoint- proper persons to be Government surveyors for the purposes of ment and powers of this Ordinance as he may think proper. Such Government surveyore, surveyors may be appointed as ship surveyors, nautical surveyors, 1724 (11 & [cf. pr. Act. engineer surveyors or radio surveyors, or in more than one of (3) and 22 such capacities.
Geo, 5, c.9. [10(4) $8)
(a) The said surveyors, in the execution of their duties, [of. pr. Act, may go on board any ship to which this Part applics at all 3.725.] reasonable times and inspect the same or any part thereof, or any
of the machinery, boats, equipments or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the master, male or engineer, to which the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts or any Ordinance apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage, and if in consequence of any accident to any such ship or for any other reason they consider it necessary to do so, may require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof. Any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such ship, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.
[10(5)
Hurveys.
26. (1) The Governor in Council may issue instructions to Regulations Government surveyors and may by regulations prescribe the sto manner in which surveys of ships are to be made, the notice to be Pr. Act. given to the Government surveyors when surveys are required,
8.724 (3); and the amount and payment of the fees due and of any travelling 2.9, 81 (1).
22 Geo. 5,