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Wilul Jamage.
Payment of expenses.
Hongkong-Port Regulations, &c.
weeks, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to forfeit for every twenty-four hours con- tinuance of disobedience or neglect, either a sain not exceeding 6 days' pay or any expenses properly incurred in hiring a sub- stitute;
(f.) If he assaults the master or any mate or certificated engineer of the ship, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 weeks:
(4.) If he combines with any of the crew to disobey lawful commands, or to neglect duty, or to impede the navigation of the ship or the progress of the voyage, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 weeks and
:
(.) If he wilfully damages the ship, or embezzles or wilfully damages any of her stores or cargo, he shall be liable to forfeit out of his wages a sum equal to the loss thereby sustained, and also, at the discretion of the Court, to impri- sonment for any term not exceeding 12 weeks:
Provided that in the case of a Foreign ship, the Stipendiary Magistrate may only deal with cases arising out of the offences mentioned in (7), (e), (f), and (g) of this sub-section, and provided also that if there is a Consular Officer resident in the Colony of the nation to which such ship belongs the Stipendiary Magistrate shall not deal with any case, unless requested to do so by such officer in writing, and unless such Officer undertakes that any such seaman shall not become a charge on the Colony in consequence of being so dealt with.
(6.) All expenses incidental to the apprehension and confinement of any seaman or apprentice under this section shall be payable by the master of the ship to which such seaman or apprentice belongs and be recoverable from him, at the suit of the Captain Superintendent of Police, as a debt due to the Govern- ment; and the subsistence money for
such seamati or apprentice confined in gaol shall be paid in advance to the Superintendent of the Gaol, and, in default of
every
Hongkong Port Regulations, &c.
such payment, the gaoler may release such seaman or apprentice : Provided that every seaman or apprentice imprisoned under this section may, by direction of the Committing Stipendiary Magistrate, he sent on board his ship, or may be placed at the disposal of the Consular Officer at whose request he dealt with the case, on the written application of such Officer, either on or before the expiration of his term of imprisonment.
PART HI
PASSENGER Sumes.
Surveys.
**
means--
Definition.
10.-(1). In this Part
passenger ship every ship exceeding 60 tons register carrying passengers from to or between places in the waters of this Colony,
(2.) Every passenger ship which carries more than twelve passengers shall be surveyed once at least in each year in the manner provided in this section, except,
(a.) British ships which have from the United Kingdom or from any British possession passenger certificates or survey and other certificates equivalent to those required under this section, the same being in force and applicable, and which have been issued under the provisions of The Merchant Shipping Acts or any enactment in force in any British possession ; and
(b) Foreign ships which have from their own country, or from the country from whose flag they may have been transferred, or from any British possession passenger certificates or survey and other certificates equivalent to those required in the case of British ships: Provided that. in the event of any question arising as to the sufficiency of any Foreign certificate to protect the ship holding the same from survey under this section, such question shall be referred for settlement to the Governor in Council whose decision thereon shall be final.
Passenger ship to be surveyedd once a year.
M8 Art. 1889) *. 271 (1) (8).
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