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[No. 47-18.7.34.-11.]

(C.S.O. 1/5939/30 II.)

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899,

8. 2 (h).

c.f. 22

Geo. 5, c. 9, s. 74.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 10 of 1899,

s. 10.

c/ 57 and

58 Vict.

c. 60, s. 282,

and 22 Geo.

5, c. 9, s. 71,

Substitution

for Ordin- ance No. 10 of 1899, s. 14, and heading.

Inspection

of non-

load line vessels.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Merchant

Shipping.

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 (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899 is amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (h) of section 2 :---

(h) "The Merchant Shipping Acts' means the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1932 and includes all regulations thereunder.

3. Section 10 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance 1932, is further amended by the addition of the following sub- section at the end thereof :---

(26) If any person-

(a) knowingly and wilfully makes, or assists in making, or procures to be made, a false or fraudulent declaration or certificate required by or under this Ordinance or the Merchant Shipping Acts; or

(b) forges, assists in forging, procures to be forged, frau- dulently alters, assists in fraudulently altering, or procures to be fraudulently altered, any such declaration or certificate, or anything contained in, or any signature to any such declaration or certificate;

that person shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanour.

4. Section 14 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1932, and the heading thereto are repealed and the following heading and section are substituted therefor :-

Inspection of vessels which are exempt from Part II the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932.

14. A Government surveyor may go on board and inspect any vessel which is exempt from Part II of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, as extended to the Colony by Order of His Majesty in Council under section 64 thereof.

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