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900 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1909.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 701.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1909.

No. 917.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

Prevention of Accidents.

Order in CouncIL EXEMPTING GERMAN SHIPS, COMPLYING WITH GERMAN PROVISIONS, from THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 427-431 OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894 (57-8 V. c. 60) AS TO LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 10TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1909.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Whereas by Section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, it is provided that Sections four hundred and twenty-seven to four hundred and thirty-one of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, (hereinafter called the Principal Act), relating to life-saving appliances shall, after the appointed day, apply to all foreign ships while they are within any port of the United Kingdom as they apply to British ships:

Provided that His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that those provisions shall not apply to any ship of a foreign country in which the provisions in force relating to life- saving appliances appear to His Majesty to be as effective as the provisions of Part V. of the Principal Act, on proof that those provisions are complied with in the case of that ship:

And whereas by Section 5 of the said Act it is provided that the said appointed day shall be the First day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, or such other day not being more than twelve months later, as the Board of Trade may appoint :

And whereas the Board of Trade have appointed the First day of October, 1909, to be the day after which the provisions of the Principal Act relating to life-saving appliances shall apply to all foreign ships while they are within any port of the United Kingdom as they apply to British ships:

And whereas it appears to His Majesty that the provisions in force in Germany relating to life-saving appliances are as effective as the provisions of Part V. of the Principal Act:

Now therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to direct that the provisions of Sections 427 to 431 of the Principal Act shall not apply to any German ship while within any port of the United Kingdom, if it is proved that the aforesaid German provisions relating to life-saving appliances are complied with in the case of that- * ship.

ALMERIC FITZROY.