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MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE,

(Chapter 281).

MERCHANT SHIPPING (FEES) (AMENDMENT)

REGULATIONS 1967,

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 114 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations--

1. These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Citation, (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1967.

2. Regulation 7 of the principal regulations is amended-

(a) in paragraph (1)

() by inserting the following after "vessel"

+

shore installation or navigational aid":

(ii) by deleting "after the first hour"; and

(6) in paragraph (2), by inserting the following after

“vessel”-

ப

shore installation or navigational aid".

3. The principal regulations are amended by adding the following new regulation after regulation 7-

"Fees where service is not completed.

4.

7A. Where, on the application of the owner or agent of a vessel, work on any service in respect of that vessel is undertaken by any officer of the Marine Department and, in consequence of any act of the owner or his agent, such work is abandoned before the completion thereof, there shall be payable such reasonable sum as the Director may agree with the applicant, having regard to the nature and extent of the work involved.".

Regulation 10 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following-

"Charges for advice and Samination of plans.

10. Where the Director consents to tender advice or examine plans in respect of the structure or squip- ment of a vessel in so far as such structure or equip- ment is to comply with British statutory requirements or with any other requirements and no fee for such advice or examination is prescribed, there shall be payable such reasonable sum in respect of such advice

Amendment of regulation 7.

(CMA. 201, nub. (a)

Addition of new regulation 7A.

Revocation and replacement of regulation 10.