218133-1935-Merchant-Shipping-Safety-Convention-Hong-Kong-No-1-Order-1935 — Page 2

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.

Now, therefore, Mis Majesty, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon Him by the said Subsection (1) of Section 36, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to direct, and it is hereby directed, as follows:-

1. The provisions of Part I of the Act other than those of Sections 1, 2, 4 (d), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 24 (2), 24 (6), 25 (1), 25 (2), 25 (4), 25 (5), 28 (1), 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, and 39 (1), adapted and modified as set out in the First Schedule hereto shall extend to the Colony of Hong Kong.

2. The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, (a) adapted and modified as set out in the Second Schedule hereto, shall extend to the Colony of Hong Kong.

3. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Safety Convention (Hong Kong) No. 1 Order, 1935.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

Alteration of

ships and additional

surveys.

Rules for life-saving appliances to implement Chapter III of Safety Convention.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE ORDER.

PART I OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY AND LOAD LINE

CONVENTIONS) Act, 1932.

Construction and Surveys.

3.-(1) The owner or master of a passenger steamer to which this section applies shall, as soon as possible after any alteration is made in the steamer's hull, equipments or machinery which affects the efficiency thereof or the seaworthiness of the steamer, give written notice to the Governor containing full particulars of the alteration, and, if notice is not so given, the owner or master of the steamer shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(2) If the Governor has reason to believe that since the making of the last declaration of survey in respect of a passenger steamer to which this section applies---

(a) any such alteration as aforesaid has been made in the hull,

equipments or machinery of the steamer; or

(b) the hull, equipments or machinery of the steamer have

sustained any injury or are otherwise insufficient;

the Governor may, without prejudice to his powers under subsection nineteen of section ten of the Ordinance of 1899, require the steamer to be again surveyed to such extent as he thinks fit, and, if such requirement is not complied with, may cancel any certificate issued in respect of the steamer under subsection ten of section ten of the Ordinance of 1899 or under this Part of this Act,

(3) This section applies to every passenger steamer, whether British or foreign, in respect of which any such certificate as afore- said is for the time being in force, and for the purpose of this section the expression "alteration" in relation to the hull, equipments or machinery of a steamer includes the renewal of any part thereof.

Life-Saving Appliances.

4.-(a) The Governor may, on such conditions as he thinks fit, exempt any steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, from any requirement of the Rules for Life- Saving Appliances, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that that requirement is either impracticable or unreasonable in the case of that steamer;

(a) 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 38.