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Hongkong-Port Regulations, &c.

"Colonial ship" means and includes every ship provided with a Certificate of Colonial Registry under Part 1 :

"River steamer'

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means any steamship, exceeding C0 tons register, having a Passenger Certi- ficate 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 means tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measure- ment of registered tonnage :

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Local trade limits" means the waters surround- ing the Island of Hongkong within the following boundaries :-

On the East.--A north and south line

drawn through the Fowtomoon

Pass:

On the West.—A north and south line drawn through the Capsuimoon Pass; and

On the South.—An east and west line drawn through the centre of Lochau or Beaufort Island, and continued until it meets the East and West boundaries:

Port of the Colony" and " port" where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, means such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port:

The Harbour Master includes any person deputed or authorised by the Harbour Master

to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance:

"International Collision Regulations means the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea made under the Merchant Shipping Acts :

Hongkong Port Regulations, &c.

PART I

REGISTRY.

3.--(1.) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with either-

(a) a Certificate of Registry in conformity with

the Merchant Shipping Acts; or

(b) a Certificate of Colonial Registry under this

Part: or

(c) a Certificate of Foreign Registry or other docu- ment similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British or Colonial ship ; or,

(7) in the case of a steamship not exceeding 60

tons, a licence under section 37.

(2.) The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a Certificate of Colonial Registry as hereinafter provided to any ship owned wholly by any person or body corporate qualified to be the owner of a British ship as described in section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

(6.) It shall not be lawful for the owner of any Colonial ship to give her any name other than that of her registry. Such name shall, before registry, be painted in white or yellow letters not less than 4 inches long, upon some conspicuous part of her stern and on each bow, in a distinct and legible manner, and shall be so kept and preserved. A scale of feet denoting her draught of water shall also be marked on each side of her stem aud of her stern post, in such manner as the Government Marine Surveyor may approve. For the breach of any of the provisions of this sub-section, the owner, or (in the absence of the owner from the Colony) the master, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 500 dollars.

Certificate or licence required by ship in waters of the Colony.

Qualifications

for holding Certificate

of Colonial Registry.

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Marking of ship,

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