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Application and issue of

local certi- ficates of

competency in relation

to mastorá

and engineers

of pleasure launches.

Owners to rsport #f requirement to register

launch as piçasure launch

censes.

Duty of

DO JEHJALO

engagement or discharge

of master OF englacer of pleasure

launches.

Duty of

masters and

engineers of

pleasure terunchies

on engagc- ment or discharge.

Identification of craft.

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33. The provisions of regulations 18 and 19 shall apply to applica tions for and the issue of local certificates of competency required for the purposes of this Part.

34. (1) If the owner of any pleasure launch ceases to use such launch for pleasure purposes or for any other reason such launch no longer requires to be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Part, the owner thereof shall report the fact in writing to the Direc- tor within seven days after the requirement for such registration ceases, stating the grounds upon which he considers registration no longer

necessary.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary con- viction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

35. The provisions of regulation 27 shall apply to the owner of any pleasure launch who employs therein any person to be master or engineer of such launch.

36. The provisions of regulation 28 shall apply to any person employed as master or engineer of any pleasure launch.

PART VIII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

37. (1) The owner of any vessel licensed under these regulations shall, subject to exemption granted by the Director, cause the name of such vessel to be painted in English and Chinese characters of appro- priate size on the stern and on either bow of the vessel together with a number, in English characters, indicating the number of persons which such vessel is licensed to carry.

(2) Having regard to the type of craft and its employment for the time being, the Director may in his discretion by notice in writing served upon the owner of any vessel licensed under these regulations or of any pleasure launch require that such vessel or launch be painted in such manner or in such colours for the purpose of identification as he may consider appropriate:

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Provided that no such vessel or launch shall be required to be repainted within one year since the last preceding occasion upon which the same was painted for any purpose before the owner thereof was served with notice of such requirement.

(3) The Director may refuse to permit any vessel licensed under these regulations or any pleasure launch to bear a name which is the same as that of any other such vessel or launch or which is so similar thereto as, in the opinion of the Director, likely to give rise to confusion.

and in good

38. (1) The owner of any vessel licensed under these regulations Vessels to be or of any pleasure launch shall cause such vessel or launch to be at all kept clean times maintained in a proper state of cleanliness and repair and any repair. apparatus or equipment fitted therein to be maintained in good order and proper state of readiness for use.

(2) No structural alterations or additions shall be made to any such vessel except with the permission in writing of the Director.

(3) No ballast shall be removed from, added to or moved as to position in any such vessel without the permission in writing of the Director.

(4) (a) The owner of any vessel or pleasure launch in respect of which any of the provisions of paragraph (1) are contravened shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(6) The owner of any vessel in respect of which any of the provi- sions of paragraph (2) or (3) are contravened shall be guilty of an offence and Hlable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars; and, if so required in writing by the Director, shall restore such vessel to the same condition as to structure or ballast, as the case may be, as the vessel was in immediately prior to the contravention, and until such restora- tion is effected to the satisfaction of the Director any licence or permit to ply granted in respect of the vessel shall be deemed to be suspended.

39. (0) The maximum hire charges for any launch in respect of Frescribing which a licence in Class I is in force and which is not structurally of bire eligible for a licence of any other class may be prescribed from time to charges for time by the Director by notification in the Gazette.

(2) A notice, written in English and Chinese, declaring the maxi- mum hire charges, if any, for the time being prescribed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) shall at all times be posted in a conspicuous place in every launch to which the provisions of this regulation apply.

(3) A launch shall be deemed to be on hire from the time when at the request of the hirer such launch is available, with her engine running, for the hirer's use.

certain launches.