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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1935.

HONG KONG.

No. 28 or 1935.

I assent.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

L.S.

Officer Administering the Government.

28th June, 1935.

An Ordinance to amend further the law relating to Merchant

Shipping.

[28th June, 1935.]

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 Short title. Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, New is amended-

paragraph (aa) for Ordinance

1899, s. 2.

(i) by the insertion of the following paragraph (aa) im- No. 10 of mediately after paragraph (a) thereof :-

(aa) "Governor" includes, in relation to any purpose of this Ordinance, any person authorised by the Governor for that purpose.

(ii) by the repeal of paragraph (j) thereof and the sub- Substitution stitution of the following paragraph:--

for Ordin- ance No. 10 of 1899,

and (0).

c. 60,

() "Passenger" includes any person carried in a ship s. 20 other than the master and crew, and the owner, his family and servants and persons on board the ship either in pursuance of 57 & 58 Vict. the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, dis- s. 267, tressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstance 22 Geo. 5, which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled.

(iii) by the repeal of paragraph (o) thereof and the sub- stitution of the following paragraph:-

(o) "Steamer" or "Steamship" means any vessel pro- pelled by steam.

c. 9, s. 33.

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