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Explanatory Note.
This table of regulations (Table 4) consolidates and re-enacts the 23 items of subsidiary legislation relating to the control of porta specified in the ninth appendix to the table as being rescinded, and will come into operation upon the coming into operation of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, which Ordinance now awaits the Royal Assent-
3. Apart from such consolidation and the consequent re-arrange- ment the main changes are-
(4) a new edition of Hong Kong Port Regulations is provided for
(reg. 4);
(5) the principal fairways are re-defined (reg. 5);
(c) the cable reserves and marine slighting ares are re-defined (reg.
6);
(d) fees for use of government mooring buoys are raised slightly
and "C" class buoys are abolished" (reg. 13);
(e) in the typhoon season it is required that deck and engine room crew sufficient to work anchors and main engines shall be on board every vessel exceeding 80 tons together with a certificated deck officer (reg. 15);
() mooring or loitering in the new canol west of Causeway Bay
reclamation without permission is prohibited (reg. 25); (Ø) approach
probibited; (h) rules for navigation and anchoring in the now Causeway Bay
typhoon shelter are provided (reg. 29);
to the naval dockyards without permission is
(1) consent of the Colonial Secretary is needed for the landing of
parties of foreign soldiers, sailors or airmen (reg. 33);
(7) the form of information to be supplied on arrival is varied (1st
Appendix);
(k) prohibited berths near seawalls and piers are varied in minor
details (5th Appendix};
(1) Junk Bay is deleted from the list of official ports of the Colony,
3. To addition penalties are revised by regulation 34.
These are not increases but appropriate allocations amengat masters, owners and the public generally of the liability for compliance with the regulations.
(Secretariat 17/3231/53)
MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE, 1953.
(Ordinance 14 of 1953).
TABLE S.
Merchast Shipping (Misor Fisheries) Regulations, 1953.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
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under the Citation
1. These regulations constitute Table Ordinance and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Minor and
commence- Fisheries) Regulations, 1953, and shail come into operation upon meat. the coming into operation of the Ordinance.
2.
In these regulations -
"beach seine net" means a net not less than 100 feet in length by 3 feet in width, which is shot from a boat and hauled by both ends to the shore;
"stake met" includes—
(a) an inshore stake net, which means a net attached to poles which is worked by a windlass stationed on shore or in less than 3 fathoms of water, or
(b) an offshore stake net, which means a net attached to poles which is worked by a windlass stationed in more than 3 fathoms of water,
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(c) a line of stakes and nets, which means a net or nets attached to a line of stakes which are driven into the foreshore or sea-bed.
Inter- pretation.
nets.
3. (1) The Director of Marine is hereby authorized to Licensing grant annual licences for the erection and maintenance of stake of stake mers and for the operation of beach seine nets at the Cees Firat specified in the first appendix hereto.
appendix.
(2) The Director may in his discretion refuse the grant or the renewal of any stake net licence.
(3) Licences shall not be transferable and shall specify the exact location in which they may be used.
(4) Any person who erects or operates a stake net or who operates a beach seine net without a licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars.