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MERCHANT SHIPPING.
(6) The master of every vessel having on board as cargo gun- Red sing to be powder or other explosives, and whilst engaged in the transshipment
of the same, shall exhibit a red flag at the highest masthead.
exhibited.
Vessel not to anchor within 500 yards of Lny other
Vessel.
Mode of pro-
ceeding when
ad.
(7) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board as cargo gunpowder or other explosives to anchor, such vessel within 500 yards of any other vessel, except by permission of the Harbour Master.
(8) The master of every vessel about to take on board as cargo explosives are any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives shall give notice to to be export the Harbour Master, and shall take the said vessel into the Gun- powder Anchorage or into such other anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and shall not remove therefrom, except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.
No gun. powder to be shipped, etc.. nt night.
Limit of * storage with out written permission.
Search wurrant.
Regulations for carrying
(9) No gunpowder or other explosives shall be shipped, landed, or transshipped, within the waters of the Colony, between 6 p.m. and 6 am. from October to March inclusive, or between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except with the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
(10) It shall not be lawful for any person, without the permission in writing of the Governor, to keep, execpt at the Government Gunpowder Depôt, for any time, however short, any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives: Provided, nevertheless, that any person may keep for his private use only, and not for sale, any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding 20 pounds and any number of safety cartridges not exceeding 5,000.
(11) Where any Stipendiary Magistrate has reasonable grounds for believing that any gunpowder or other explosive is kept on board any vessel, or in any house or place, in contravention of this section, and he may grant a warrant to any police officer to enter the same, thereupon such officer may so enter and, if necessary, break into the premises and search the same.
(12) The Governor-in-Council is hereby empowered to make re- out provisions gulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this section, of s. 38. and for the movement, carriage, landing, shipment, and transship- ment of explosives, and the precautions to be taken in connexion Tables Q&R. therewith, and to fix the sums chargeable for the storage of gun- powder, safety cartridges, or other explosives. Every violation or neglect of any such regulations shall render the party so offending liable to the penalties imposed by sub-section (14).
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(13) The sums charged in respect of the storage of such gun- Payment and
recovery of powder or other explosives shall be paid raonthly by the party in
sums for whose name the same is or are stored, and, in the event of non- storage. payment within 21 days after the money has become due and payable, it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct the said gunpowder or other explosives to be sold in order to defray the expense of storage, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting all Government charges and the expeuses of sale, shall be paid to the party who proves himself entitled thereto to the satisfaction of the. Governor.
(14) Every person who violates, or refuses or fails to comply with, Penalty. any provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 dollars, or to imprisonment, without hard labour, for any term not exceeding 6 months.
(15) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the provi- Saving of sions of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.
No. 1 of 1878.
ships of war
(16) Nothing in this section shall apply to His Majesty's ships of Exception of war, or to the ships of war of any foreign nation, or to hired armed and Govern vessels in His Majesty's service or in the service of any foreign nation, or to any Government stores.
ment stores,
suchorage.
(17) The expression "Gunpowder Anchorage" means the anchor- unpowder age on the south side of Stonecutters Island, to the west of a line from which the White Rock bears north and to the north of a line from which the shears at the Kowloon Naval Yard bear east.
PART IX.
STEAMSHIPS NOT EXCEEDING SIXTY TONS AND RIVER STEAMERS. Steamships not exceeding Sixty Tone.
not to ply for
37.-(1) It shall not be lawful for any steamship not exceeding Steamships 60 tons to ply for hire to, from, or between any places in the waterston of the Colony, unless she has obtained a licence as hereinafter pro- Hire without
licence. vided; and in case any such steamship is so employed as aforesaid without such licence, the owner, master, or person in charge thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars: Provided that if such steamship has obtained a certificate of imperial or colonial
• An amended by No. 3 of 1903, No. 5 of 1905, No. 0 of 1900,
No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1912, No. 51 of 1911, No. 16 of 1012,
No, 17 of 1912 and No, 49 of 1812 Supp. Sched.
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