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Addition of

new Part

TILA.

Amendment

of section

24.

2

3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after Part 10 the following new Part-

Seamen's

service

record books.

Regulations.

Icy. 1970. 4. 36. 1. TIJ

4.

"PART IIIA

Service Record Books

14A. Every seaman who is ordinarily resident in Hong Kong and whose name appears in Part 1 of the register shall hold a service record

book.

148. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following matters-

(a) the issue of service record books in such form and containing such particulars with respect to the holders thereof and such other. particulars (if any) as may be prescribed and requiring seamen to apply for service record books:

(6) requiring the holders of service record books. to produce them to such persons and in such circumstances as may be prescribed;

(c) the surrender of service record books in soch

circumstances as may be prescribed:

(d) any incidental or supplementary matters for which the Governor in Council thinks it expedient for the purposes of the regulations to provide.

(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisiona thereof shall be an offence punishable on conviction by a fine not exceeding $5.000.".

Section 24 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) by deleting subsection (5) and substituting the follow-

ing-

*(5) Any entry in the official log book of a ship or in any similar document, and any document pur- porting to be a copy of any such entry and to be certified as a true copy by any person specified in subsection (8), shall be admissible in evidence and be prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein in proceedings before a Board of Reference if the entry was made, and signed by the master and some

other member of the crew, within 24 hours after the occurrence to which it relates or within such other time as may be allowed under the maritime law applicable to the ship concerned."; and

(b) by deleting subsection (8) and substituting the follow-

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"(8) For the purposes of subsection (5), a copy of an emry in an official log book of a ship or in any similar document may be certified by-

(a) a superintendent of a mercantile marine

office in any part of the Commonwealth;

(6) a duly accredited consular officer;

(c) a port authority;

(d) a notary public; or

(e) a commissioner for oaths,

or by any person who has functions similar to those of a port authority, notary public or commissioner for oaths.

(BA) A copy of an entry in an official log book of a ship or in any similar document purporting to be certified by any person specified in subsection (8) shall be deemed to have been so certified until the contrary is proved.”.

5. Sections 39(1)(b) and (2), 40(3)(b) and (4), 42(1)(b). Amendment 43(2)(a)(iv) and (5), 44(2)a)(v), 45(2)(a)(iv) and (5), 46(2)(a)(iv), of various

scclions of 63(2)(b) and (3), 64(3)(b) and (4), 66(2)(ii) and (5), 81(2)(b), the principal 82(3)(b) and 84(2)(ii) of the principal Ordinance are amended by Ordinance. deleting "Hong Kong seaman's discharge" wherever it occurs and substituting the following-

**gervice record".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 26th day of February, 1975.

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Clerk to the Legislative Council,