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33.-1.) If any person wilfully or negligently commits Penalty for any of the following offences, that is to say :-
injuring
ki, sec. 34,
(.) Injures any lighthouse, or the lights oxbibited lights, &c.
therein, or any buoy or beacon, or any electric cables, wires or other apparatus either in connexion there- with or otherwise;
(b. Removes, alters, injures, or destroys any lightship, bnoy, or beacou, or any cables, wires, or other apparat as either in connexion therewith or otherwise; (e. Rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of, any light-
ship, buoy or bearon;
He shall, in addition to the expenses of making good any damage so occasioned, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
6. Although section 33 follows the Imperial Act in imposing a fine only for wilful injury to a lighthouse or buoy, it might be desirable in the peculiar circum- stances of Hong Kong to reserve the power of giving imprisonment without the option of a fine for this serious offence; and Mr. Chamberlain proposes, subject to the observations of the Board of Trade, so to instruct Sir Henry Blake.
Paragraph 6-I certainly think that this suggestion might well be given effect to.
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Section 27-It seems desirable that all cables should be covered by the provi-
sion of the paragraph in question.
(this is effected mirting
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"alection".
As regards sub-section (1) (c) of section 33 of 30 of 1899 the Board of Trade Minute is as follows:---
"Why is reference to cables, &c., omitted from this sub-clause, it is referred to
in the paragraphs immediately preceding?"
In reply, the Harbour Master points out that it seems unnecessary to include "cables" in this sub-section. A cable might be injured, altered or removed, but it cannot be run foul of, nor can a ship ride by it without using the buoy connected with it, or make fast to it without picking it up, e.g., removing it.
33. I do not find that the remarks, paragraph 6, in the letter from Mr. Lucas to the Board of Trade of 11th April, 1900, have been given effect to.
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then suggeation appears not & hans he put before the Jokumor. My.
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