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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

[Act of Colonial Legislature

or other Authority under which levied.

Fees of Court or Office, &c,,—Continued,

SURVEY OF STEAMSHIPS :—

(4). In the case of a passenger ship, the fee for change of name includes the issue of fresh declarations and passenger certificates showing the new name and any alterations in the ownership and Port of Registry,

The fee for a passenger certificate is apportioned as follows:-

Complete survey of bull

Two-fifths full fee.

Complete survey of boilers, main propelling machi-

Two-fifths full fee.

One-fifth full fee.

nery and auxiliary machinery

Complete survey of Equipments

...

Survey for Certificate for Obtaining a Plying Licence.

(Vessels not exceeding GO tons (Net)).

4.-(a) Scale of fres for a certificate of survey for 12 months :-

Tons (Net).

Fec.

Under 10

10 and under 20

20

30

**

30

40

40

50

13

**

50

60

**

*

A

•

444

*

•

$ 30

45

...

GO

75

90

105

(b) For a certificate for less than 12 months, one-twelfth of the full fee will be charged for each month of the period of the certificate but no fee is to be less than three-twelfths of the full fee or $10 whichever is the greater.

Survey for a Certificate for Obtaining a Licence Under the Chinese Passenger Act, 1885, or the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915.

5. (a) Scale of fees for survey of a licence for 12 months: -

Ordinance 10 of 1899, and

Regulations, Table C.

(i) Ordinary (ii) Special

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Nature of Survey.

Fee.

$ 75

150

(b) (i) An ordinary survey is one which does not involve more than two visits by a Surveyor.

(ii) If more than two visits are necessary or in cases where owing to age or any other circumstances there are reasonable grounds for doubting the seawor thiness of the ship the survey is deemed to be of a special character.

(e) An emigration licence is only granted to a ship which holds a valid Hong Kung Foreign-going passenger certificato or its acceptod equivalent. If the surveys for passenger certificate and emigration licence (or licences) are held simultaneously only one half of the above fee for un ordinary survey is to be charged for the latter in addition to the fee for passenger certificate.

(d) The appropriate fee will cover the survey of the ship and her equipments, including lights and sound signals; accommodation; distilling apparatus; stores : and lighting, ventilating and sanitary arrangements, but it will not cover the survey for a passenger certificate; measurement for tounage; survey for loadline or inspection of crew spaces.

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