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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 6, 1934.

HONG KONG.

No. 6 of 1934.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L. S.

Governor,

6th April, 1934.

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,

1899.

[6th April, 1934.]

Short title.

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 10 of 1899,

s. 25 (3).

Precautions

in case of fire or dis- turbance.

Suspending clause.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Sub-section (3) of section 25 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is repealed, and the following sub-section is substituted therefor:

(3) In case of police assistance being required on board any ship, owing to an outbreak of fire, or to a riot or dis- turbance which the master and his officers are unable to quell, if by day, the Signal S T shall be hoisted, and, if by night. three lights in a vertical line, the highest and lowest lights white and the middle light red. The day signal may be supplemented by the signal NQ "I am on fire", or R X "Want assistance--mutiny", and the night signal by a "Flare up" every minute in the case of fire, or "Blue Lights" in the case of disturbance. A continuous sounding with any fog signal apparatus may. in addition, be adopted to attract attention in either case.

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is His 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.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 5th day of April, 1934.

R. A. C. NORTH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.