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4. For the purposes of this Ordinance the term "vessel" Application. includes all ships and boats of any nature whatsoever, engaged
in maritime navigation whether publicly or privately owned, except ships of war.
5. Any person who contravenes any provision of this Penalty. Ordinance shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
6. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless Suspending and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is His clause. Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.
Objects and Reasons.
1. On the 9th July, 1920, a general conference of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations adopted a Convention fixing fourteen years as the minimum age for admission of children to employment at sea, except in school ships and training ships and in vessels upon which only members of the same family are employed, and requiring shipmasters to keep a register of all persons under sixteen years of age.
2. Under Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles it is necessary to apply the Convention to the Colony subject to such modifications as may be necessary to adapt the Convention to local conditions.
3. Section 2 gives effect to Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention, with a proviso relating to native vessels similar to one enected or contemplated in East African Dependencies.
4. Section 3 gives effect to Article 4 of the Convention.
5. Section 4 adopts the definition of "vessel" given in Article 1 of the Convention.
6. Section 5 provides the penalties and section 6 is the suspending clause usual in the case of an Ordinance relating to Merchant Shipping.
May, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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