THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
particulars hereinafter mentioned, which shall be entered
in a register for the purpose, that is to say :-
(a.) Name and capacity of junk (in piculs).
(b.) The name, address and description of the
owner or owners and of the master.
(c.) The name and address of every consignee or agent if any of the junk and cargo in the Colony.
(d.) The description of the cargo on board and
number of crew and passengers.
(c.) The place from which the junk sailed on her voyage to the Colony and the date of departure from such place and of her arrival in the Colony.
(f) Whether carrying any and what guns, arms
and ammunition."
Clearance.
(11.) The master of any junk about to leave her an Flag to be chorage at any port of the Colony shall eighteen hours hoisted before the time of the intended departure of such juuk before de- hoist at the highest mast head such flag or signal as shall parture. from time to time be specified by the Harbour Master and also shall give notice of such intending departure and the nature of the proposed voyage together with the general character of cargo and particulars of any arms, ammunition and other articles on board at the Harbour Master's Office or Station as the case may be at which the licence of such junk has been deposited and he will thereupon if there is no reasonable objection have the licence returned to him. Provided always that in case such junk shall not leave her anchorage within twenty-four hours thereafter, the master shall report the same at the Harbour Master's Office or Station, as the case may be, and the reason thereof and shall if so required to do re-deposit the said licence.
(12.) The Harbour Master or the officer in charge of Special Per- any Harbour Master's Station may, upon payment of the mits.
fee prescribed in Table T, grant to the master of any junk or other vessel licensed under this section a Special Permit" valid for one voyage only for the doing of any act mentioned in such permit. Such Special Permit may authorise a trading junk licensed to trade only within the waters of the Colony to leave the waters of the Colony for one voyage only. The Special Permits shall be in the form of entry in the junk's pass book as shown in Table T of the Schedule to this Ordinance.
(13.) No junks shall leave any port in the Colony with- Junks not out a clearance, unless the safety of the vessel (through to leave stress of weather) shall render it necessary and in such without case she shall return to her former anchorage or place in port when such necessity for leaving it shall have ceased.
clearance.
(14.) No junk shall leave her anchorage or attempt to No junk to leave any port of the Colony between the hours of 6 p.in. leave at and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, nor between night. the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except in the case of a licensed fishing junk which has obtained a special permit from the Harbour Master.
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(15.) No licence, special permit or receipt shall be used Penalty for in respect of any junk other than the junk therein specified, unlawfully or for any purpose or for any period of time other than using licence, the one therein mentioned, and every master of a junk who shall knowingly use or attempt to use any licence or special permit which shall not have been lawfully obtained, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding three hundred dollars or imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding twelve calendar months and every junk in respect of which a licence or special permit shall have been used or attempted to be used in violation of this sub-section may, either with or without the cargo thereof, and whether the master shall have been brought to trial or not, at the discretion of the Court, be forfeited to the Crown.
(16.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to Licences to grant to any vessel other than a "Junk" a licence in other vessels. like manner and in accordance with the provisions of sub- section (4) of this section in relation to Trading Junk
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