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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 26, 1909.

A

BILL

Short title.

Definition.

Extension of

ENTITLED

An Ordinance further to amend the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Onlinance may be cited as the Merchant Ship- ping (Amendment) Ordinance 1908 and shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1899 (hereinafter called “The Principal Ordinance"), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance and the Ordinances amending the same may be cited together as "The Mer- chant Shipping Ordinances 1899-1908”.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows :-

After the definition of “ Steamship" the following shall be inserted :—“ Motor Boat" means a vessel not execeding sixty tous propelled by any mechanical power however applied except

steam oars or sails.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-

In sub-section (2) (b) by the insertion of the words "of second mate in the case of a foreign going sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons "after the words "only mate in the third line thereof.

In sub-section (13) by_the_omission of the words "the Assistant Harbour Master, the Marine Surveyor" in the first and second lines thereof.

4. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby definition of further amended by the insertion in subsection (1) (b) of "Passenger the word "to" after the word “from,"

ship".

Extension of provisions for limiting number of passengers carried.

Entry in log- book of boat drill and inspection of life-saving appliances,

Production. of record.

Penalty.

5. Subsection (2) of section 12 of the Principal Or- dinance is hereby repealed and the following subsection shall be substituted and read in lieu thereof :-

(2.) I a ship has on board at any place within the waters of the Colony a number of passengers which having regard to the time occasion and circumstances of the case is greater than the number allowed by her passenger certificate or in case of a ship not provided with a passenger certificate exceeds twelve the owner or master of the ship shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars in respect of every passenger in excess.

6. Section 13 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsections and provisos :-

(7.) The master of every British and Colonial ship shall enter or cause to be entered in the official log-book, a statement, or if there is no official log-book, cause a record to be kept, of every occasion on which boat drill is practised on board the ship, and on which the life-saving appliances on board the ship have been ex- amined for the purpose of seeing that these appliances are fit and ready for use.

(8.) The master shall, if and when required by any officer of the Harbour Department, produce for inspection any record kept by him for the purpose of this section.

(9.) If the master of a ship fails to comply with any requirement of subsections (7) and (8) of this section he shall be liable on summary convic- tion for each offence to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.