Short title
Interpretation
9 & 10 Geo. 5, e, 92, s. 5.
Employment
of aliens in British ships.
10 Geo.
5. c. 92. s. 3.
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[24th March, 1922.]
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 Shipping (Aliens Employment) Ordinance, 1922.
2. In this Ordinance :--
Former enemy alien means an alien who is or at any time has been a subject or citizen of the German Empire or any component state thereof, or of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, or Turkey, except--
(i) any former subject of the German Empire or any component state thereof, or of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey, who has changed his allegiance as a result of the recognition of new states or territorial re-arrangements, and (ii) any former subject or citizen of the German Empire or any component state thereof, or of Austria, Hun- gary, Bulgaria or Turkey, who has been naturalized in any other foreign state or in any
British possession in accordance with the laws thereof and when actually resident therein, and who, by virtue of such naturalization or otherwise, has lost the nationality of the former enemy state of which he was originally à national.
3.--(1.) No alien shall act as master, chief officer, or chief engineer of a British ship of over sixty tons net register tommage registered in the Colony: Provided that this prohibition shall not apply to any person who holds a valid certificate of exemption granted by the Governor in Council and who complies with the conditions, if any, attached to such exemption, or to any alien who has acted as a master, chief officer, or chief engineer of a British ship any time during the war and who is certified by the Admiralty to have performed good and faithful service in that capacity.
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(2.) No alien shall act in any capacity on board a British ship of over sixty tons net register tonnage regis- tered in the Colony unless he has produced to the officer before whom he is engaged satisfactory proof of his nationality.
4. No former enemy alien shall act as master, officer, or member of the crew of a British ship registered in the Colony.
5. Every person who engages an alien or a former enemy alien within the Colony for employment on a British ship in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and where the person guilty of an offence is a company, every director and officer of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his consent or connivance.
Employment of former enenLy alions in British. ships.
9 & 10 Geo.
5. r. (2. §, 12,
Persons engaging
aliens or former enemy aliens for employment in contravention of The Ordinalec.
6. Every person who is guilty of an offence against. Pulties. this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding six months.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 23rd day of March, 1922,
A. G. M. FLeicher,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 24th day of Marclı, 1922.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary,
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT,
MEASUREMENT OF RIVER STEAMSHIPS,
No. 33. All' Tween Deck Space in River Steamers
is to be measured and added to Gross Tonnage, as per Board of Trade Instructions. This will apply to Canton and West River Passenger Steamers,
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