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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.
Modification of safety certificates
as respects life-saving appliances.
Issue of wireless telegraphy certificates
and wireless telegraphy exemption certificates.
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Prohibition
on proceed- ing to sea without certificate.
the Governor shall, on the application of the owner of the steamer, issue in respect of the steamer-
(i) a safety certificate stating in what respects the steamer complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention, and
(ii) an exemption certificate stating that so long as the steamer plies on the voyages, and is engaged in the trades, and complies with the conditions (if any) specified in the certificate, the steamer is exempt in other respects from the requirements of the said Convention;
and any safety certificate and exemption certificate issued under this subsection are hereafter in this Part of this Act respectively referred to as "a qualified safety certificate" and "a passenger steamer's exemption certificate."
(4) For the purposes of this section, the Governor may treat-
(a) any passenger steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, (not being a steamer converted to passenger service on or after that, date) as complying with the construction regulations applicable in the circumstances; and
(b) any passenger steamer constructed before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, as complying with the rules for life-saving appliances applicable in the circumstances;
it he is satisfied that such steps (if any) as are reasonable and practicable have been taken to make the steamer comply with those regulations or rules, as the case may be.
(5) The provisions of this section shall, subject to the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act, apply only to British passenger steamers registered in Hong Kong.
a British passenger
12.-(1) If, on any international voyage, steamer registered in Hong Kong in respect of which a safety certificate is in force has on board a total number of persons less than the number stated in that certificate to be the number for which the life- saving appliances on the steamer provide, the Governor, or any person authorised by him for the purpose, may, at the request of the master of the steamer, issue a memorandum stating the total number of persons carried on the steamer on that voyage, and the consequent modifications which may be made for the purpose of that voyage in the particulars with respect to life-saving appliances stated in the certificate, and that memorandum shall be annexed to the certificate.
(2) Every such memorandum shall be returned to the Governor at the end of the voyage to which it relates, and, if it is not so return- ed, the master of the steamer shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.
13.-(1) On receipt of a declaration of survey by a wireless telegraphy surveyor in respect of a British ship registered in Hong Kong, not being a passenger steamer, the Governor shall, if satisfied that the ship complies with the wireless telegraphy rules applicable to ships (other than passenger steamers) plying on international voyages, issue a certificate stating that the ship complies with the requirements of the Safety Convention relating to wireless telegraphy, and any certificate issued under this subsection is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as "a wireless telegraphy certificate.”
(2) Where any such ship is exempted under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919, in force in Hong Kong, from the obligations imposed by that Act, the Governor, on the application of the owner of the ship, shall issue an exemption certificate stating that the ship is exempted from the requirements of the Safety Convention relating to wireless telegraphy and specifying the voyages on which, and conditions (if any) on which, the ship is so exempted, and any certificate issued under this subsection is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as a wireless telegraphy exemption certificate."
14.-(1) No ship to which this section applies shall proceed to sea on an international voyage from a port in Hong Kong after the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of this Part of this Act, unless there is in force in respect of the ship-
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