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(Fraser, Vol. I. p. 224).

(12, 13 & 14 Geo 6.

43).

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"permission" means written permission;

**petroleum conversion plant" means any place in which petro- leum in any quantity not exceeding one thousand gallons is manipulated, blended, filtered or refined;

"petroleum installation" means any place in which petroleum in any quantity exceeding one thousand gallons is mani- pulated, blended, filtered or refined, or in any quantity exceeding fifty thousand gallons is stored in bulk; "petroleum lighter" means a lighter employed in carrying

petroleum in bulk;

"prescribed place" means any of the following places--

(a) the wharf at Laichikok belonging to the Standard-

Vacuum Oil Company;

(b) the wharf at North Point belonging to the Asiatic

Petroleum Company (S.C.) Limited;

(c) the wharf at Taikokisui belonging to the Asiatic

Petroleum Company (S.C.) Limited;

(d) the wharf at Kun Tong belonging to the Asiatic

Petroleum Company (S.C.) Limited;

(e) the wharf at Tsun Wan belonging to Caltex (Asia)

Limited;

( any other place which the Governor in Council may

prescribe;

"river trade limits" means river trade limits as defined in regula- tion z of the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Regulations, 1935;

"Safety Convention" means the International Convention for the

Safely of Life at Sea, 1948;

"Safety Convention country" bears the meaning attributed in section 36 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act, 1949, to "country to which the Safety Convention applies":

"separate" in relation to the stowage of dangerous goods on vessels means separated by the engine and boiler rooms from spaces occupied by any unberthed passengers and so stowed as to be inaccessible to passengers;

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"specified" in relation to any buoy or anchorage means specified

in any particular case by the Director:

"S.W.G."' means Standard Wire Gauge;

"Table A“ means the Table contained in regulation 9;

"Table B" means the Table contained in regulation 10;

"Table C" means the Table contained in regulation 17;

"Table D" means the Table contained in regulation 27;

"Table E" means the Table contained in regulation 44;

"lanker" means a vessel exceeding two hundred and fifty tons gross measurement employed in carrying liquid in bulk.

(a) In these regulations, any reference to a category, class, division or group of dangerous goods relates to the classification at any time and for the time being appearing in the Dangerous Goods (Classification) Regulations, 1950.

(3) In these regulations, any reference to a weight or measure relates to standard weights and measures of the Colony and, for the purpose of finding the equivalent in liquid measure of any quantity in weight and the equivalent in Weight of any quantity in liquid measure, ten pounds shall be deemed to be equal to one gallon.

(4) For the purpose of any regulation under which an offence is committed by reason of any vessel contravening the provisions of any regulation, a vessel on or in respect of which such provisions are contravened shall be deemed to contravene such provisions.

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(1) For the purposes of these regulations vessels shall Classifica- be classified as follows-

tion of vessels.

Type I vessel.

Any vessel habitually trading outside river trade limits and in possession of a valid Safety Certificate or Safety Equipment Certificate issued in respect of such vessel by the Government of a Safety Convention country in accordance with the Safety Convention.