MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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(h)*
เ
The Merchant Shipping Acts" means the Merchant 57 & 58 Vict. Shipping Act, 1894, and all Acts amending the same, and all c. 60. regulations made thereunder;
(i) "Motor boat
means any vessel not exceeding sixty tons propelled by any mechanical power however applied, except steam, oars, or sails;
22 Geo. 5, c.
(j) "Passenger includes any person carried in a ship 57 & 58 Vict.
c. 60, s. 267. other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants and persons on board the ship either in pursuance of 9, s. 33. the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, dis- tressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled;
(k)
Port of the Colony" and "port", where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, mean such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port;
(1)" River steamer " means any steamship regularly plying between the Colony and any place on the Canton River or the West River or any river in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai, or between the Colony and Macao;
(m) Seaman " includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship;
(n) "Ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except junks or lorchas not propelled by steam;
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(0) Steamer or steamship
pelled by steam;
(p) Tons" and tonnage calculated according to British tonnage;
means any vessel pro-
mean tons and tonnage as
measurement of registered
(q) "Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation.
* But see No. 25 of 1934 [Merchant Shipping (No. 2) Amendment], s. 2
(not yet in force on 1.1.1938].
[cf. No. 5 of 1895, s. 2.]
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