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No. 10 of 1899.
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MERCHANT SHIPPING,
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
No. 10 of 1899.
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[c/. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, 5. 276.]
Report of structural alteration. [cf. 22 Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 3 (1).]
Further penalties for non-com-
pliance with provisions relating to passenger surveys and certificates.
Penalties
for carrying
passengers in excess of
complement [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, 5. 283.]
Equipment
passenger
of
ship.
Safety valve.
[cf. 57 & 58
Vict. c. 60,
s. 285 (4).]
information and assistance within his power as he or they may require for the purpose of such returns; and every such owner, master or engineer who, on being applied to for that purpose, wilfully refuses or neglects to give such information or assist- ance shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
[(22), rep. No. 21 of 1922.]
(23) If any structural alteration is made in any passenger ship, the owners, agents, charterers and master shall, within twenty-four hours after the alteration is made or as soon there- after as possible, report the same by letter to the Harbour Master, and in default, without reasonable excuse therefor, they shall be severally liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
(24) If the provisions of this Part which require a passenger ship to be surveyed and to have a passenger certificate are not complied with in the case of any such ship, the master or owner shall, without prejudice to any other remedy or penalty under this Ordinance, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for every passenger carried from or to any place in the waters of the Colony,
(25) The
owner, agent, charterer, master or comprador of any passenger ship shall not receive or have on board thereof or on or in any part thereof at any place within the waters of the Colony any number of passengers which, having regard to the time, occasion and circumstances of the case, is greater than the number allowed by the passenger certificate; and if he does so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and also to an additional fine not exceeding five dollars for every passenger above the number so allowed.
General equipment.
11.—(1) Every passenger ship of which a survey is required by section 10 shall—
(a) be provided (if a steamship) with a safety valve upon each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if such valve is in addition to the ordinary valve, it shall be so constructed as to have an area not less, and a pressure not greater, than the area of and pressure on that valve;
* As amended by No. 28 of 1935 [1.7.35] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
of
(b) have the ship's compasses properly adjusted from time (s. 11 contd.] to time, such adjustment to be made to the satisfaction of the Adjustment Government surveyor or surveyors and according to such regula- compasses. tions as may be issued by the Governor;
[(c), rep. No. 28 of 1935.]
[cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, 8. 285 (1).]
[1.7.35.]
(d) be provided with means for making the signals of Signals. distress at night specified in Article 31 of the International 7.57&58
Vict. c. 60, Collision Regulations, including a proper supply of lights 3. 435 (1).] inextinguishable in water and fitted for attachment to life-buoys;
and
for deck passengers.
8. 104.
(e) be provided (if a ship not coming within the provisions Shelter of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, or of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915) with such shelter for the protection of deck 18 & 19 Vict. passengers, if any, as the Governor in Council, having regard to the nature of the passage, the number of deck passengers No. 30 of to be carried, the season of the year, the safety of the ship and 1915. the circumstances of the case, may require.
Ordinance
Regulations
Table D.
to sea Penalty for
equipment.
(2) If any such passenger ship as aforesaid goes from any port of the Colony without being so provided as here- inadequate inbefore required, then, for each default in any of the above (cf. 57 & 58 requisites, the owner shall (if he appears to be in fault) be liable Vict. c. 60, s. 285 (5).] to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and the master shall (if he appears to be in fault) be liable to a fine not exceed- ing five hundred dollars.
(3) If any requirement of this section or of Table D in the In case of
non-compli Regulations is not complied with in the case of any passenger ance Har ship, the Harbour Master shall not grant a clearance, and if bour Master any such ship attempts to go to sea without a clearance, the to refuse Harbour Master may detain her.
clearance. [cf. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, s. 271 (2).] Regulations
Table D.
(4) Every person who places an undue weight on the safety Penalty for valve of any steamship or increases such weight beyond the improper weight on limits fixed by the Government surveyor, shall, in addition to safety valve. any other liabilities, be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand
dollars.
57 & 58
Vict. c. 60, 9.286.]
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