CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 51

No. 14:-[15.1.08.]

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance further to amend the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Ship- Short Title. ping (Amendment) Ordinance 1908 and shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1899 (hereinafter called "The Principal Ordinance"), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance and the Ordinances amending the same may be cited together as The Mer- chant Shipping Ordinances 1899-1905”.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Definitions. amended as follows:--

In the definition of the word "Seaman" the words "aud apprentices duly indentured and regis- tered" shall be omitted and the word "and" inserted between the word "masters" and the word " pilots".

After the definition of "Steamship" the following shall be inserted :-" Motor Bout" moans a vessel not exceeding sixty tous propelled by any mechanical power however applied except

steam oars or sails.

3. Subsection (2) (5) of section 4 of the Principal Medification Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion of the words of regula "of second mare in the case of a foreign going sailing ship tione re- of not more than two hundred tous" after the words garding

certificated only mate in the third line of the sub-ection.

officers.

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"Passenger ship".

4. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Extension of further amended by the insertion in subsection (1) (b) of debuition of the word to" after the word "from,"

5. Subsection (2) of section 12 of the Principal Or- dinance is hereby repealel and the following subsection shall be substituted and read in lieu thereof :-

number of

(2.) If a ship has no board at any place within the Extension of

waters of the Colony a number of passengers provisions which having regard to the time occasion and for limiting circumstances of the case is greater than the passengers number allowed by her passenger certificate or carried. in case of a ship not provided with a passenger certificate exceeds twelve the owner or master of the ship shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars in respect of every passenger in excess.

6. Section 13 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition of the following sabsections and provisos :--

(7.) The master of every British and Colonial ship Entry in log-

shall enter or cause to be entered in the official book of boat log-book, a statement, or if there is no official drill and log-book, cause a record to be kept, of every life-saving

inspection of occasion on which boat drill is practised on appliances. board the ship, and on which the life-saving appliances on board the ship have been ex- amined for the purpose of seeing that these appliances are fit and realy for use.

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