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C.S.O. 1/2580/23.

A BILL

249

[No. 40:-5.3.34.-2.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,

1899.

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 Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

for Ordin-

2. Sub-section (3) of section 25 of the Merchant Shipping Substitution Ordinance, 1899, is repealed, and the following sub-section ance No. 10 is substituted therefor :-

of 1899, s. 25 (3).

in case of fire or dis-

(3) In case of police assistance being required on board Precautions 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, turbance. 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 N Q "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.

clause.

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless Suspending 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.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance is rendered necessary owing to changes in the day and night signals The present local police day call S is to be abandoned as it conflicts with the S in the International Code meaning "My engines are going full speed astern." The signal ST meaning "I require a police boat' is to be substituted. The present night signal. three vertical lights, red, white, red, conflicts with the signal prescribed for a cable ship at work. It is to be changed to three vertical lights, white, red, white. The signal NM for "I am on fire" is to be changed to NQ and the signal YF "Want assistance-mutiny" is to be changed to RX.

2. Section 3 is the suspending clause usual in Ordinances relating to Merchant Shipping.

March, 1934.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.