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HONGKONG PORT REGULATIONS

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nor the owner of the vessel shall, in respect of such throwing overboard, be subject to any liability, civil or criminal, in any Court.

5. Dangerous goods improperly sent may be forfeited.

6 The Court may proceed in absence of the owners.

7. Saving as to Dangerous Goods Ordinance.

XIII. Constitution and powers of Marine Courts and Courts of Survey. XIV.-If a shipowner feels aggrieved :—

(a) By a declaration of a Government Surveyor or Surveyors under Sub- section 8 of Section V. of this Ordinance, or by the refusal of a Surveyor to give the said declaration; or

(b) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance for an emigrant ship under the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," or the Ordinance relating thereto; or

(c) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance under this Ordinance-the owner, charterer, master, or agent may appeal in the prescribed manner to a Court of Survey.

XV.--Examinations shall be instituted for persons who intend to become masters, engineers, or mates of foreign-going ships.

3. Applicant to give notice to Harbour Master.

6. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon lodging his ap- plication, pay to the Harbour Master a fee, if for a master's or first-class engineer's certificate, of twenty dollars, and if for any other certificate, of fifteen dollars.

8. Any applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory examination, and shall have given satisfactory evidence of his sobriety, experience, and general good conduct on board ship, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of competency.

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XVI. 2. The name of a master, first, only or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles of agreement, of any British or Colonial ship unless such master, mate, or engineer shall possess a certificate of service or competency issued by the Board of Trade or by the proper authority in any British Possession,

3. No British or Colonial ship shall leave the waters of the Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second or only mate have obtained and possess valid certificates of competency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade, and no such ship, if of one hundred tons burden or upwards shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses, a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate there- in, or to a higher grade.

4. Every British steamship of one hundred nominal horse-power or upwards, leaving the waters of the Colony, shall have as its first and second engineers two certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first-class engineer's certificate," and the second possessing a "second-class engineer's certificate," or a certificate of the higher grade, and every British steamship of less than one hundred nominal horse- power shall have as its only or first engineer an engineer possessing a "second-class engineer's certificate," or certificate of the higher grade.

7. Every person who, having been engaged in any of the capacities mentioned in Sub-sections 2 and 3, in any such ship as aforesaid goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to and possessed of such certificate as is required by this section; and every person who employs any person in any of the above capacities in such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to or possessed of such -certificate as is required by this section, shall, for each offence, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

8. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped to do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercantile Marine Office. Fees to be charged.

11. No seaman shall be discharged from a British ship, or any foreign ship whose