Saving.
(14 of 1953).
(d) the payment of royalties to the Government, the method of calculation of the amount of such royalties and the manner and time of payment;
(e) the manner in which the boundaries of cultivation areas
shall be marked;
(f) the duties of licensees;
(g) the making, construction and marking of rafts and the
manner of anchoring them;
(b) inspection of rafts and cultivation area and any kind of
oysters found there;
✪ the conservation of pearl oysters in the waters of the Colony and the promotion of economical methods of collection and cultivation of such oysters and the culture of pearls:
(7) the size and types of pearl oysters which may be collected
or harvested or in which pearls may be cultured;
(k) returns and reports to be rendered and accounts, registers, books, records and plans to be kept by licensees, and the manner of rendering or keeping them;
(1) the disposal of any noxious or waste matter resulting from the collecting or harvesting of pearl oysters or the processing of pearls; and
(m) the safety, welfare, health and working conditions of
divers.
(a) Regulations made under this section may provide that any contravention of any such regulations shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months and in the cast of a continuing offence a further daily penalty of a fine not exceed- ing fifty dollars.
17. Except as provided in section 18, nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to the prejudice of any of the pro visions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953-
18. Regulation 7 of the Merchant Shipping (Minor Fisheries) Amendment Regulations, 1953 is amended by-
of regula tion 7 of the
(a) deletion of the full stop at the end and substitution Merchant
therefor of a colon;
(b) insertion of the following proviso-
Shipping (Minor
Fisheries) Regula-
(G.NA
"Provided that this regulation shall not apply to the time, 1953. rearing of or fishing for pearl oysters within the meaning 112/63). of the Pearl Culture (Control) Ordinance, 1958.".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this zoth day of August, 1958.
(Secretariat CR5/2586/56)
b. Ly..
Deputy Clerk of Councils.