218133-1935-Merchant-Shipping-Safety-Convention-Hong-Kong-No-1-Order-1935 — Page 6

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.

Certificates

of Conven- tion ships not register- ed in Hong

Kong.

Modifications

as to survey

of passenger steamers holding Convention certificate.

for the purpose, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be admissible in evidence in like manner as if it had been signed by the Governor.

(5) The following provisions of section ten of the Ordinance of 1899 shall apply to and in relation to every such certificate issued by the Governor in the same manner as they apply to and in relation to a passenger certificate, namely, subsection eleven (which relates to the transmission of the certificate to the owner of the steamer), subsections nine and seventeen (which relate to the fees to be paid for the certificate), subsection nineteen and nineteen A (which relate to the cancellation of the certificate), the last fifty words of subsection eighteen (which relate to the delivery up of the certificate) and subsection twenty (which relates to the posting up of the certificate on the ship).

(6) The Governor may request the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies to issue a general safety certificate, a short voyage safety certificate or a wireless telegraphy certificate in respect of a British ship registered in Hong Kong, and a certificate issued in pursuance of such a request and containing a statement that it has been so issued shall have effect for the purposes of this Act as if it had been issued by the Governor.

Provisions as to Safety Convention Ships not registered in Hong Kong.

16. (1) The Governor may, at the request of the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies, issue a general safety certificate, a short voyage safety certificate or a wireless telegraphy certificate in respect of a ship of that country if he is satisfied in like manner as in the case of a British ship registered in Hong Kong that he can properly issue the certificate, and, where a certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so issued.

(2) For the purpose of the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act relating to Safety Convention ships not registered in Hong Kong, the expression "a valid Safety Convention certificate” means a certificate or certificates complying with such of those regulations made by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Acts with respect to the validity of certificates purporting to have been issued in accordance with the Safety Convention as are applicable in the circumstances.

(3) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer, not registered in Hong Kong, and there is attached to the certificate a memorandum which-

(a) has been issued by or under the authority of the Govern-

ment of the country to which the steamer belongs; and (b) modifies for the purpose of any particular voyage, in view of the number of persons actually carried on that voyage, the particulars stated in the certificate with respect to life-saving appliances;

the certificate shall have effect for the purpose of that voyage as if it were modified in accordance with the memorandum.

17.-(1) Where a valid Safety Convention certificate is produced in respect of a Safety Convention passenger steamer not registered in Hong Kong-

.

(a) the provisions of the principal Act and of this Act as to the survey of passenger steamers by a wireless telegraphy surveyor shall be deemed to have been complied with in the case of the steamer;

(b) the survey by the Government ship surveyor and engineer surveyor required under section ten of the Ordinance of 1899 shall be limited to ascertaining the number of passengers which the steamer is fit to carry, and satisfying himself that the Certificates of Competency of the officers are such as are required by the Ordinance and it shall not be necessary for the declaration of survey made by either of these surveyors to contain a statement of any further particulars than those set out in paragraphs (a) (v), (a) (vi) and (b) (vi) of subsection (8) of the said section;