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Amendment

of Ordin- ance No. 10 of 1899, s. 21.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 10

of 1899,

s. 22 (3).

New sub- section (3A) of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, s. 22.

Owners

agents and charterers

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machinery, the master shall, within twenty-four hours after the happening of the accident or damage, or as soon there- after as possible, report the same by letter to the Harbour Master, and in default, without reasonable excuse therefor, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

12. Section 21 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the addition of the words "without the written permission of the Harbour Master" after the word "Colony" at the end thereof.

13. Section 22 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the substitution of the words "properly to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master" for the word "properly" in the fourth line of sub-section (3).

14. Section 22 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is also amended by the insertion of the following sub- section after sub-section (3):

(3A). The obligations as to proper mooring of a ship to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master imposed by sub-section hable where (3) shall fall on the owners, agents and charterers in the case

of any ship without a master.

ship is

without

a master.

Amendment

of Ordin ance No. 10 of 1899,

s. 26 (1) (c).

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 10 of 1899, s. 26 (2).

Obstruction

of wharves

lying off praya at night, etc.

15. Section 26 (1) (c) of the Merchant Shipping Ordin- ance, 1899, is amended by the insertion of the word "oil" after the word "rubbish," in the first line.

16. Section 26 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is also amended by the substitution of the following sub-section for sub-section (2) thereof :-

(2) (a).--No vessel shall lie alongside any public wharf or public landing place or alongside any part of any praya wall except when engaged in taking on board or landing passengers or cargo.

(b) No vessel shall without a written permit from the Harbour Master be moored or at anchor, between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m, within a distance of less than one hundred yards from low water mark of such part of the Colony as is declared in paragraph 2 of Table N in the Schedule to this Ordinance to be a part of the Colony in respect of which the provisions of section 26 (2) (b) of this Ordinance shall apply, or of such part of the Colony as may be declared by regulation made by the Governor in Council in substitution for the said paragraph 2 of Table N Provided that nothing contained in this sub-paragraph shall be construed as extending to any vessel moored or at anchor alongside any private wharf with the written consent of the owner of such wharf.

(c) No vessel shall lie alongside any other vessel, or any wharf or landing place, public or private, or any part of any praya wall, in such manner as to obstruct the free access of any other vessel thereto.

(d) No raft or floating logs shall be moored alongside any wharf or landing place, public or private, or any part of the praya wall, in such manner as to obstruct the free access of any vessel thereto.

(e) No vessel shall lie alongside any other vessel without the consent of the master thereof.

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