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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZE TE, DECEMBER 1, 1933.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 773.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Colonial Secretary.

1st December, 1933.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1933.

No. 976.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

Pilotage.

ORDER IN COUNCIL APPROVING NEW PILOT SIGNALS.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 9TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1933.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the 45th section of the Pilotage Act, 1913, (a) it is enacted that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make rules as to the signals to be used or displayed where the services of a pilot are required on any vessel, such signals being referred to in that Act as pilot signals:

And whereas by the 62nd section of the said Act it is enacted that the said Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, (b) and the Acts amending the

same :-

And whereas by Order in Council dated the 29th day of June, 1900, (c) made under Section 615 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which section is re-enacted by Section 45 of the Pilotage Act, 1913, Her late Majesty approved as pilot signals the signals specified in the Schedule annexed to such Order in Council:

And whereas by section 738 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, it is enacted that where His Majesty has power under that Act to make an Order in Council, His Majesty may, from time to time by Order in Council, revoke any Order so made:

(a) 2-3 G. 5. c. 31.

(b) 57-8 V. c. 60.

(c) S.R. & O. Rev. 1904, VIII, Merchant Shipping, p. 301 (1900, No. 502).

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