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Regula- tions, Tables 9,

10 & 11,

Regula- tions, Table 15.

Jef. 22 Geo.

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5. c.0,

(1) (8).1

[ef. 32 Geo. 6, c.9, 201 (1) (9).1

[cf. 22 Geo. 5, c.9, s.1 (1) (#))

or other expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties.

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(3) Regulations may prescribe the persons by whom and the conditions under which any such payment shall be made. [10(6)

(3) The power to make such regulations shall include a power to make such regulations applicable to passenger ships plying on international voyages as appear to the Governor in Council to implement the provisions relating to construction, machinery, equipment and marking of load-lines which are contained in the International Convention respecting Load Lines, 1930, the Inter- national Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, and the regulations referred to therein, and to make further regulations implementing similar provisions of any subsequent international convention which may be applied to the Colony and any regula- tions which may be referred to therein except so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts or this Ordinance.

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(4) Such instructions and regulations may modify any such requirement-

(e) with regard to passenger ships plying on any inter- national coasting voyage, if and to the extent that the Governor in Council is satisfied that the risks incurred by passenger ships plying on that voyage are such as to make it unreasonable or unnecessary to require ships so plying to comply with that requirement; and

(b) with regard to ships for the time being engaged in any passenger trade in which they are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers, if the Governor in Council is satisfied that compliance with that requirement by ships so engaged is impracticable and to the extent that he is so satisfied that modifications are requited by the conditions of the trade. [10(6)

(5) The Governor may treat any passenger ship constructed before the 1st day of July, 1931, (not being a ship converted to passenger service on or after that date) as complying with any such requirement if he is satisfied that such steps, if any, as are reasonable and practicable have been taken to make the ship comply with that requirement.

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(6) The Governor may, with regard to any ship plying on short international voyages, modify any of the requirements of the regulations relating to construction made under this section which implement the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, contained in Regulations IX, X, XV and XIX thereof, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that the requirement is neither reasonable nor practicable in the case of that ship.

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(7) Except so far as such instructions and regulations are issued or made by the Governor in Council under this section the Government surveyors shall exccute their duties in accordance with the instructions to surveyors and any subsequent rules, instructions and regulations issued by the Minister. £10(6)

[ef. 22 Geo. 5. c.9, .1 (1) (2).]

have survey

27. (1) The owner, agent or master of every passenger ship Owner to being within the waters of the Colony shall where such ship

made. comes within the meaning of this Part cause the same to be Declaration

thereof. surveyed by one or more of the Government surveyors, who shall thereupon if satisfied that it can properly be done complete a Regula- declaration or declarations of survey in a form prescribed by Table 15. regulations.

(10(8) £9, 42 (3).

(2) If in the judgment of any such surveyor a passenger ship is fit to ply on international voyages while engaged in a special passenger trade only, his declaration of survey shall state that fact.

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tions.

22 Geo. 8.

(3) Such declaration or declarations shall be produced for [ef, pr. Act,

6.274.1 the inspection of such owner, agent or master, and upon his request a passenger certificate in duplicate shall be issued by or on behalf of the Governor and at the absolute discretion of the Governor to the effect that the provisions of the law with respect to the survey of the ship and the transmission of declarations in respect thereof have been complied with, and such certificate shall state the limits, if any, beyond which according to the declarations of the surveyor or surveyors such ship is not fit to ply, and shall also contain a statement of the number of passengers which according to the declaration of the surveyor or surveyors such ship is fiu to carry, distinguishing (if necessary) between the respective numbers to be on the deck and in the cabins, such number to be subject to such conditions and variation according to the time of the year, the nature of the voyage, the cargo carried, and other circumstances as the case may require,

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