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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
"Ordinance of 1899" means the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by subsequent Ordinances; "Passenger steamer" means a steamer carrying more than twelve passengers;
"Principal Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894; "Rules for life-saving appliances" means all rules made by the Board of Trade under section four hundred and twenty-seven of the principal Act, and from time to time in force in respect of passenger steamers plying on:--
(1) Any international voyage
(2) A short international voyage
and include any regulations made by the Governor in Council under section thirteen of the Ordinance of 1899;
"Safety Convention" means the Convention signed on behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom in London on the thirty-first day of May nineteen hundred and twenty-nine for promoting Safety of Life at Sea by establishing in common agreement uniforin principles and rules directed thereto;
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"Safety Convention ship" means a ship belonging to a country to which the Safety Convention applies, and the expression "Safety Convention passenger steamer" shall be construed accordingly:
"Special passenger trade" means any passenger trade in which passenger steamers are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers and "special passenger trade voyage" shall be construed accordingly;
"Wireless telegraphy rules" means the rules in respect of wireless telegraphy made by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
(2) Notwithstanding any rules or regulations made in pursuance of this Act for the purpose of giving effect to, or implementing, any provision of the Safety Convention which requires a particular fitting, appliance, or apparatus or type thereof, to be fitted or carried in a ship, or any particular provisiou to be made in a ship, the Governor may allow any other fitting, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, to be fitted or carried, or any other provision to be made if he is satisfied that that other fitting, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, or provision, is at least as effective as that required by the Convention,
(3) Where under this Act the Governor is required to make such regulations or rules as appear to him to be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to any of the provisions of the Safety Convention, the requirement shall, in the case of a provision the terms of which are such as to vest in the several Governments who are parties to the Convention a discretion as to whether any or what action should be taken thereunder, be construed as an authority to the Governor to make by regulations or rules such provision (if any) with respect to the matter in question as the Governor in the exercise of that discretion thinks proper.
(4) Where a ship is detained in pursuance of any provision of this Act which provides for the detention of a ship until a certain event occurs, paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 17 of the Ordinance of 1899 (which makes provision as to the costs of the Government of and incidental to the detention and survey of the ship) shall apply as if the ship had been finally detained within the meaning of that subsection.
(5) In this Act references to a ship constructed before or after any date shall be construed as references to a ship the keel of which has been laid before or after that date, as the case may be.
(6) Any references in this Act to any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1928, which has been amended by any subsequent Act, including this Act, shall be construed as a reference to that provision as so amended.
39.-(2) The enactments set out in Part I of the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall be repealed, to the extent specified in the third column of that Part of that Schedule, as from the commencement of this Part of this Act.
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