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(2) Regulations under this section-

(a) may make different provision for different descriptions of ships or for the same description of ships in different circumstances, (b) may make any provision thereof dependent on compliance with such conditions, to be evidenced in such manner, as may be specified in the regulations;

(e) may provide for the ascertainment of any space to be taken into account for the purposes of section 85 of the principal Act (pay- ment of dues where goods carried in spaces not forming part of registered tonnage) and may exempt any space from being taken into account for those purposes; and

( may prohibit or restrict the carriage of goods or stores in spaces not included is the registered tonnage of a ship and may provide for making the master and the owner cach lable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds where such a prohibition or restric- tion is contravened.

(3) Regulations under this section may make provision for assigning to a ship, either instead of or as an alternative to the tonnage ascertained in accordance with the other provisions of the regulations, a lower tonnage applicable where the ship is not loaded to the full depth to which it can be safely loaded, and for indicating on the ship, by such mark as may be specified in the regulations, that such a lower tonnage has been assigned to it and, where it has been assigned to it as an alternative, the depth to which the ship may be loaded for the lower tonnage to be applicable.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act as in force in Hoog Kong or in the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance(a), regulations under this section may-

(a) provide for the measurement and survey of ships to be under- Laken, in such circumstances as may be specified in the regulations. by persons appointed by such organizations as may be authorized in that behalf by the Governor; and

(5) prescribe the amount and the payment of the fees payable to

persons appointed in pursuance of this subsection.

(5) Regulations under this section may make provision for the altera- don (notwithstanding anything in the principal Act as in force in Hong Kong or in the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance) of the particulars relating to the registered tonnage of any ship registered before the coming into operation of the regulations.

(9) Regulations under this section may provide for the issue of docu- ments certifying the registered tonnage of any ship or the tonnage which is to be taken for any purpose specified in the regulations as the tonnage of a ship not registered în Hong Kong.

2. Regulations made under the power conferred by section 27(3) of the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance may provide for the marking of load lines, at the owner's request, in a position on a ship lower than that indicating the several maximum depths to which it can be safely loaded in various circumstances.

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(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act as in force in Hong Kong shall have effect in Hong Kong subject to the amend- ments specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Schedule,

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being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the foregoing provisions of this Act

(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act ace hereby repealed in their application to Hong Kong to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

6. (1) In this Act "the principal Act" means the Mercbanı Shipping Act 1894(x).

(2) This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1964.

SCHEDULE 1.

Minor and ConséqVENTUAL AMENDMENTS,

Enactrient amended.

Amendment.

The Merchant Shipping Act 1894(a). In section 84, there shall be added at the cod of subsection (1) the words "and any space shown by the certificate of registry or other national papers of any such ship as deducted from the tonnage shall. where a similar deduction in the case of a British ship depends on compliance with any conditions or on the compliance being evidenced any manner, be deemed to comply with those conditions and to be so evidenced, unless a sur- veyor of ships certifles to the Governor that the construction and the equipment of the ship as respects that space do not come up to the standard which would be required if the ship were a British ship regis- tered in Hong Kong."

Ù) 1994 1, 60.

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In section 85. in subsection (1) after the words 'forming the ship's regia- tered tonnage there shall be inserted the worda "and not exempted by regulations under the Merchant Shipping Act 1965 as extended to Hong Kong", and in subsection (3) for the words from "by an officer of the Board of Trade" to "this Act" there shall be substituted the words "in accord- ance with regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Act 1965 as extended to Hong Kong."

Interpretation and

VOORULLID,

Sequan 70.