1953-HKRS30-8-43_Part02 — Page 21

Naked lights.

24. (1) No naked light shall be used on board any vessel in the waters of the Colony.

(2) Permissible lights are electric lights or lanterns burning animal, vegetable or such other oil as will not give off an inflammable vapour at less than 120° Fahrenheit when tested as (Ord. 1 of prescribed under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.

1878).

Prohibited areas for mooring

small

vessels,

loitering, etc.

Fifth appendix.

Sixth appendix.

Carrying passengers for hire at night. Seventh

appendix.

Guna. Grearma and

freworks.

26. (1) No vessel shall without a written permit from the Director be moored or at anchor between 9 p.m. and 5 am. within 100 yards of the shore on the north side of Victoria between Cadogan Street Kennedy Town and Kellet Island, nor within 100 yards of the shore in Kowloon between Blackheads Point to the westernmost point of the military camp at Shamshuipo.

(z) No vessel shall without the permission of the Director anchor off or berth alongside the seawall and other places specified in the fifth appendix, except so far as may be expressly excepted in that appendix.

(3) No vessel shall without the permission of the Director anchor mour lie or loiter-

(a) in the area of Yaumati Bay firstly specified in the sixth appendix or within 100 yards of the seawall or low watermark of the places thereafter specified in such sixtlı appendix;

(b) within 500 yards from low watermark on Green Island;

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(c) within 500 yards of the seawall of Kai Tak airport; (d) within the canal west of the Causeway Bay reclamation and on the southern side of Causeway Bay typhoon shelter.

(4) No launch nor any junk or other native craft shall except on the instructions of naval officer or dockyard official approach. nearer than 100 yards to any part of the naval dockyard at Hong Kong or Kowloon.

26. No person in charge of a boot plying for hire shall receive or land passengers between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m, except at the wharves specified in the appendix or, with consent, at a private wharf.

27. Except in the case of ships of war, no cannon, gun, firearm or firework of any description shall without the consent of the Director be discharged from any ship, junk or bont within

harbour limits or between the area bounded by a line from the west end of Hong Kong Island to Waterfall Bay thence to the south end of Tai Tam Peninsula, thence to Cupe D'Aguilar, Cape Collinson, and terminating at the south-east corner of Lyemun Pass,

28. (1) The typhoon shelters are for use during bad weather Typhoon by junks and other native craft and launches, lighters and other shelters. small craft of European construction. They shall not be used by any other vessels except with the written permission of the Director.

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(2) No vessel, so long as any space remains unoccupied inside the breakwater, shall anchor, secure or He in such a position as to obstruct the free access of other vessels to such unoccupied space.

29. The following rules apply to Causeway Bay typhoon Causeway shelter-

Hay shelter.

(1) No launch or other vessel licensed under Part XIII of the Ordinance and exceeding 20 gross tons, no small craft licensed under Part XIV of the Ordinance and exceeding 350 piculs, and no pleasure craft exceeding zo gross tons shall, except when any local typhoon signal is hoisted, enter or lie in the shelter without a permit issued by the Director.

(2) Every vessel in the shelter shall lie in such area as may be prescribed by the Director as appropriate to vessels of her type, and no vessel shall anchor in any fairway prescribed by the Director except when a local typhoon signal other than number 1 signal is hoisted.

(3) No vessel shall at any time, so long as any space remains unoccupied inside the shelter, anclior, secure or lie in such a position as to obstruct the free access of other vessels to such unoccupied space.

(4) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent any vessel from using any recognized pier or landing place within the limits of the said typhoon shelter for the purpose of landing or embarking passengers or cargo, but such vessel shall not remain within its limits longer than is absolutely necessary for such landing or embarking.

shelter.

30. The following rules apply to Yaumati typhoon shelter- Yaumati (1) The space from the light on the east side of the southern entrance to the southwestern point of Public Square Street pier is reserved for government craft and shall not be used by other vessels.