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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935.

"Passengers' shall have the same meaning as it has for the purpose of the Ordinance of 1899.

"Passenger steamer" means a steamer which carries more than twelve passengers.

"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 uniform principles and rules directed thereto.

"Wireless Telegraphy Rules" means the Rules in respect of Wireless Telegraphy made by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Acts and include any Regulations made by the Governor in Council under Section 3 of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1926.

No. 714.

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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published

for general information.

R. A. D. FORrest,

Colonial Secretary.

20th September, 1935.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS

1935 No. 693

MERCHANT SHIPPING

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING SAFETY CONVENTION (HONG KONG) No. 2 ORDER, 1935.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

THE 15TH DAY OF JULY, 1935.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT.

MR. ORMSBY-GORE.

LORD RUSHCLIFFE,

MAJOR TRYON.

Whereas by Subsection (3) of Section 36 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932, (a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") it is provided that His - Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any provision

(a) 22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 9.

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