Short title.
Validation and indemnity. (Cap. 81).
(G.N.A 107/66)
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AND WHEREAS the Pilots (Amendment) Regulations, 1956, amended the scale of fees prescribed in Appendix B of the Pilots Regulations to conform with the practice aforesaid:
AND WHEREAS it is now expedient to validate the payment and receipt of any pilotage dues so paid and received as aforesaid and to provide that no legal proceedings shall be instituted in respect of any such payment or receipt ;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pilotage Dues (Validation) Ordinance, 1956.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Pilots Ordin- ance, any sum of money offered or paid by a master of a ship or demanded or received by a licensed pilot in good faith in respect of pilotage services prior to the coming into operation of the Pilots (Amendment) Regulations, 1956, shall not be deemed to have been unlawfully offered, paid, demanded or received if such sum did not exceed the appropriate charge prescribed in Appendix B of the Pilots Regulations as rescinded and replaced by the Pilots (Amendment) Regulations, 1956; and no proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be instituted against any master or any pilot licensed under the said Ordinance in respect of any such offer, payment, demand or receipt aforesaid.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 19th day of December, 1956.
Deputy Clips of Councils.
(Secretariat 7619/45)
HONG KINE
No. 61 or 1956.
I assent.
Mhacan
Goperuar,
20th December, 1956.
An Ordinance to authorize a supplementary appropriation to defray the charges of the financial year ended the 31st day of March, 1956,
[21st December, 1956.]
WHEREAS It has become necessary to make further provision for the public service of the Colony for the financial year ended the 31st day of March, 1956, in addition to the charge upon the revenue of the Colony authorized by the Appropriation (1955-1956) (10 of Ordinance, 1955 :
1966),
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Supplementary Short title. Appropriation (1955-56) Ordinance, 1956.