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Repeal of section 6 of

the principal

Ordinance.

Repeal and replacement ot section #

of the prio-

cipal Ordi-

GANCE.

Power to permit era. ployment of subject of foreign KAK,

Special plovision. to permir employment

of unscrd- fremmed engineers

as second

engineers,

5.

(c) fraudulently leads his certificate of competency or allows it to be used by any other person, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.

(19) Nothing in this section or in any other enactment to the contrary shall be deemed to prevent the amployment of the subject of any foreign state which may be specified by the Governor in Council, from acting as master or officer of any grade in a British ship if the Governor has granted him an authority to act in such capacity.

(20) Nothing in this section or in any other enactment to the contrary shall be deemed to prevent or to have prevented the engagement and employment, as second engineers under temporary permit from the Governor, of experienced uncertificated engineers where the Governor is satisfied that a certificated engineer cannot be obtained.

Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed.

6. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:

slores, elc.. in secor-

dance with reate issued by Board of Trade.

ship to

8. (1) The owner, agent or master of every British carry medi- ship navigating between the Colony and any place out cincs, medical of the same shall cause to be kept on board auch abip a supply of medicines and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to auch ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Board of Trade or Ministry of Transport in the United Kingdom, and a copy of the book or booka BO issued containing instructions for dispensing the same, and also a sufficient quantity of anti-scorbutics, to be served out to the crew, of proper quality and in accordance with the requirements of the Merchant Ship- ping Acts.

Owner, coc., neglecting to provide medicina

and medical

storms to

be guilty

of inisde-

MANOP

Inspection of medical

(2) The owner, agent or master of any auch ship who wilfully refuses or neglects to provide and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions and anti-scorbutics as are by this section required shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Port Health Officer to inspect the medicines, medical stores and anti- 57 & 8 Vict. scorbutics of any British ship navigating between the Colony and any place out of the same, and, if such

Kores.

c.60. $.201.

Master of xhip before slupping

seaman may

require him

to unlergo medical inspection.

Death or deserdon

to be reported.

Penalty co Dakter for Filthy coodi-

articles are deficient in quantity or quality or are placed in improper containers, he shall give notice to the master of the ship and to the Director of Marine who shall, before granting a clearance to such ship, require a gertificate from the Port Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and, if such certificate is not produced, the ship shall be detained until the certi- ficate is produced, and if the ship proceeds to sea, the owner, consigues or master of the ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

(4) The master of any ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall he inspected by a registered medical practitioner.

(5) In the event of the death of any of the crew, passengers or other persons on board any ship in the waters of the Colony, or of the desertion of any of the crew of any British ship or of any foreign ship whose Bag is not represented by a consular officer resident in the Colony, or in the event of the death of any of the crow, passengers or persons on board any ship in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of such ship shall, forthwith or on the arrival of the ship in the Colony, as the case may be, report the same to the Director of Marine, and, in default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for every death or desertion which he may neglect to report.

(6) If any ship carrying passengers is found, on arrival in the Colony, to be in a filthy and insanitary don of ship, condition, the master of the ship shall be liable to a fine It shall be the not exceeding one thousand dollars. duty of the Port Health Officer to inspect every such ship on its arrival in order to ascertain the sanitary condition thereof.

7.

Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted "therefor :-

Restric- tions on arriage of dangerous goods. Ordinance No. 1 di 1873. [ef. Ordin ance No. 17 of 1928.

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Repeal and replacement at cpion 15

Ordinance.

15. (1) Every person who sends or attempts to send of the by, or, not being the owner or master of the ship or principal vessel, carries or attempts to carry in, any ship or vessel any dangerous goods as defined by the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the container or package containing the same and giving written notice of the nature of anch goods, and of the name and address of the sender or carrier thereof, to the owner or master of the ship or vessel, at or before the time of sending the same to be shipped or taking the same on board the ship or vessel, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred