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Enclosure 3.

RECO (RegP28 JUN 09

[1909]

[1909]

[any]

For

[and the Assistant Marine Surveyor]

4. Subsection (1) of Section 10 of the Principal Or- ace is heroby repealed and the following is substituted

for :-

(1.) For the purpose of this Part the expression

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passenger ship "shall mean every ship ex-

coeding sixty tous register carrying passengers from to or between places in the waters of the Colony.]

1. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby

aded by the addition of the following subsections:-

(24.) If the provisions of this Part, which require a passenger ship to be surveyed and to have a passenger certificate, are not complied with iu. the case of any such ship the master or owner of the ship shall, without prejudice to any other remedy or pensity under this Ordinance, be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for every passenger carried from or to any place in the waters of the Colony.

(25.) The owner or master of any passenger ship shall not receive or have on board thereof or on or in any part thereof at any place within the waters of the Colony any number of passengers which having regard to the time occasion and circumstances of the case is greater than the number allowed by the passenger certi- ficate, and if he does so he shall for each offence be liable to a penalty uot exceeding two hundred dollars and also to an additional penalty not exceeding five dollars for every passenger above the number so allowed.]

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A BILL

ENTITLED

No. 14:~~[21.4.09.]

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:--

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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 amonding the same may be cited together as "The Mer- chant Shipping Ordinances 1899-[1908]".

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

After the definition of "Steamship" the following

shall be inserted :-" Motor Boat" means [n] vessel not exceeding sixty tons propelled by

any mechanical power however applied except steam cars or sails.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows :--

In sub-section (2) () by the insertion of the words "[of second mate in the case of a [foreign going] sailing ship of not more than two hundred tona after the words "only mate" in the third line thereof.

In sub-section (13) by the omission of the words "the Assistant Harbour Master, the Murine Surveyor" in the first and second lines thercof.

[4. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Extension of further amended by the insertion in subsection (1) () of definition of

**Passenger the word "to" after the word from ".]

ship".

[5. Subsection (2) of section 12 of the Principal Or- Extension of dinance is hereby repealed and the following subsection provisions

for limiting shall be substituted and read in lieu thereof :---

number of (2.) If a ship has on board at any place within the passengers

waters of the Colony a number of passengers carried. which having regard to the time occasion and circumstances of the case is greater than the namber allowed by her passenger certificate or in case of a ship uot provided with a passenger certificate cxcceds 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 Entry in log- amended by the addition of the following subsections and book of boat

drill ant provisos :--

inspection of (7.) The master of every British and Colonial ship life-saving shall enter or cause to be entered in the official appliances. log-book, a statement, or if there is no official log-book, canse a record to be kept, of every occasion on which boat drill is practised on 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 ready for use.

(8.) The master shall, if and when required by any Production

officer of the Harbour Department, produce for of record. inspection any record kept by him for the

purpose of this section.

(9.) If the master of a ship fails to comply with any Penalty.

requirement of subsections (7) and (8) of this section he shall be liable on summary convic- to a fine] not exereling

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