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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1935.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 10 of 1899, s. 10 (2).

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 10

of 1899,

s. 10 (4).

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 10

of 1899,

s. 10 (6).

Regulations

as to

surveys.

c. 60, s. 724 (3); 22 Geo. 5,

c. 9, s. 1 (1).

3. Section 10 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof:

Provided that paragraphs (a) and (b) of this sub-section shall cease to apply to Safety Convention passenger ships plying on international voyages on the expiration of twelve months from the coming into operation of any Order of His Majesty in Council, under section 36 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932. extending the provisions of Part I of that Act to the Colony.

4. Section 10 (4) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :-

Such Government surveyors may be classified as Ship Surveyors, Engineer Surveyors and Wireless Telegraphy Surveyors.

5. Sub-section (6) of section 10 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-

(6) The Governor in Council may issue instructions to Government surveyors and make regulations as to the manner 57 & 58 Vict. in which surveys of ships are to be made, as to the notice to be given to the Government surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees due, and of any travelling or other expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties. The Governor in Council may by such regulations determine the persons by whom and the conditions under which any such payment shall be made. The power to make such regulations shall include a power to make such regulations applicable to passenger ships plying on international voyages as appear to the Governor in Council to implement the provisions relating to construction, machinery, equipment and marking of load lines which are contained in Chapter II of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, and the Regulations referred to therein (except so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts or this Ordinance).

Such instructions and regulations may-

(i) modify any such requirement, as respects passenger ships plying on any international coasting voyage, if and to the extent that the Governor in Council is satisfied that. the risks incurred by passenger ships plying on that voyage are such as to make it unreasonable or unnecessary to require ships so plving to comply with that requirement; and

(ii) modify any such requirement, as respects ships for the time being engaged in any passenger trade in which they are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers, if the Governor in Council is satisfied that compliance with that requirement by ships so engaged is impracticable and to the extent that he is so satisfied that modifications are required by the conditions of the trade.

Provided that the Governor may-

(a) treat any passenger ship constructed before the 1st July, 1931,( not being a ship converted to passenger service on or after that date) as complying with any such requirement

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