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Jona. 1.

A BILL

ENTITLED

No. 13:-[31,5.11.-3.]

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping

Amendment Ordinance, 1899, and certain Or- dinances amending the same.

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

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Merchant Short sitle Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1911," and shall be read and construc-

a construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordin- tion. ance 1899, (hereinafter called "the Principal Ordinance"), and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance together with the Ordinances amending the sime may hereafter be cited as "The Merchant Shipping Ordinances, 1899 to 1911".

2. Section 4 sub-section (2) of the Principal Ordinance Adds a new as amended by the Merchaut Shipping Amendment Or- proviso to dinances, 1905 and 1909, is hereby further amended by of Ordinance section 4 (2) the addition thereto of a further proviso as follows :--

"Provided also that any steam trawler or other fishing vessel propelled by mechanical power other than vars or sails regularly engaged in trawling upon the high seas from the Colony shall also be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if it is pro- vided with a duly certificated Trawling Master or a master possessing at least a River Trade certificate and an engineer possessing a certi- ficate of competency from the Harbour Master of Hongkong."

No. 10 of 1899.

3. Section 28 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amenda amended by the deletion of the comma at the end of sub- section 26 of

Ordiu uce sub-section (f) of sub-section (1) thereof and by the sub- No. 10 of stitution therefor of a semi-calon followed by the word 1899. "or" and by the addition thereafter of the following sub- sub-section :-

"(g.) if any person hiring any vessel refuses or Refusing or

neglects on demand by the person in charge of neglecting to

pay fares. such vessel to pay lawful fare,”.

4. The section 30 of the Principal Ordinance introduced Repeals a by section of the Merchant Shipping Amendment section intro Ordinance, 1906, is hereby repealed and the following the Principal

duced into

section is substituted in lieu thereof :-

Ordinance

by section

4 of Or.

dinance No.

16 of 1906

and subati-

PART X.

Junks and Small Boats.

tutes a new

section there. for.

39.-(1.) (4.) The term "Master" shall include any Definition of person for the time being in charge or command of **Master".

any junk.

(b.) Branch stations of the Harbour Master's Office shell Harbour be maintained at such; places in the Colony as the Governor Master's may, from time to time, determine, which shall be under Stations, the superintendence and control of the Harbour Master,

and shall be called "Harbour Master's Stations".

(c.) The Harbour Master shall with the approval of the Anchorages Governor, by regulation to be published in the Gazette, for junks. appoint suitable anchorages in the waters of the Colony to be called "Auchorages for Junks".

Unless and until the limits of such anchorages shall be altered by the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, the limits of anchorages in Table S of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be in force.

(2) Every junk within the waters of the Colony shall Classifica- be licensed in one of the five classes :-

tion of juaka

(2.) Trading Junks, (i) that leave the waters of

(6.) Fishing Junks.

the Colony.

(ii) that do not leave the

waters of the Colony.

(c.) Lighters, Cargo Boats and Water Boats.

(d) Fish Drying Hulks, other Hulks and other

Boats.

The licences shall be in the form in Table T of the Form of Schedule to this Ordinance.

Licence for junks.

The fees shall be those prescribed in Tables T and U, or Fees. such others as the Governor-in-Council may from time to time determine.

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