CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917 — Page 528

>

523

No. 10 of 1899.

To consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Merchant Ship-

ping.

Preliminary Provisions.

1. The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1890.

[In force 19th Sept., 1903.]

2. In this Ordinance,- "Stipendiary Magistrate

Short title.

Interpreta.

tion of terms.

means and includes any Magistrate

+

and the Marine Magistrate :

"Master includes every person (except a pilot) having com mand or elante of any ship :

"Seaman" includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship:

Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation:

...

Ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by ours, except junks or lerchas not propelled by steam:

Junk includes "lorcha" and any sea-going sailing vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction, and rig

"Lorcha "includes any sea-going sailing vessel of European build and construction, but of Chinese or other Asiatic rig, or of Chinese or other Asiatic build and construction, but of European rig: Steamship" means any vessel propelled by steam:

·

**Motor boat means any vessel not exceeding 60 tons propelled by any mechanical power however applied, except steam, cars, or sails:

**Colonial ship" means and includes every ship provided with a certificate of colonial registry under Part I:

River steamer means any steamship, exceeding 60 toas register, having a passenger certificate under section 10 (10), and regularly plying between the Colony and any port or place on the Canton River, or the West River, or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung Province, or Macao:

·

Passenger" includes any person carried in a ship, other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants:

Tons" and "tonnage mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage :

Fu

**Local trade limits" means the waters surrounding the Taland

of Hongkong within the following boundaries :—

*As amended by No. 16 of 1923.

+ As amended by Ho. 6 of 1984, No. 9 of 1909, No. 31 of 1941, No. 50 of 1911, No. 16 of 1912. No. 17 of 1912, No. 21 of 1902 nud. No. 20 of 192.