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for Ordin-

5. Sub-section (6) of section 10 of the Merchant Shipping Substitution Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :-

ance No. 10

of 1899, s. 10 (6).

as to

(6) The Governor in Council may issue instructions to Regulations Government surveyors and make regulations as to the manner surveys. in which surveys of ships are to be made, as to the notice 57 & 58 Vict. to be given to the Government surveyors when surveys are c. 60,

s. 724 (3); required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees due, 22 Geo. 5, and of any travelling or other expenses incurred by such c. 9, s. 1 (1). surveyors in the execution of their duties. The Governor in Council may by such regulations determine the persons by whom and the conditions under which any such payment shall be made. The power to make such regulations shall include a power to make such regulations applicable to passenger ships plying on international voyages as appear to the Governor in Council to implement the provisions relating to construction, machinery, equipment and marking of load lines which are contained in Chapter II of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, and the Regulations referred to therein (except so far as the said provisions are otherwise implemented by the Merchant Shipping Acts or this Ordinance).

Such instructions and regulations may-

(i) modify any such requirement, as respects passenger ships plying on any international coasting voyage, if and to the extent that the Governor in Council is satisfied that the risks incurred by passenger ships plying on that voyage are such as to make it unreasonable or unnecessary to require ships so plying to comply with that requirement; and

(ii) modify any such requirement, as respects ships for the time being engaged in any passenger trade in which they are employed in the carriage of large numbers of unberthed passengers, if the Governor in Council is satisfied that compliance with that requirement by ships so engaged is impracticable and to the extent that he is so satisfied that modifications are required by the conditions of the trade.

Provided that the Governor may

(a) treat any passenger ship constructed before the 1st July, 1981, (not being a ship converted to passenger service on or after that date) as complying with any such requirement if he is satisfied that such steps, if any, as are reasonable and practicable have been taken to make the ship comply with that requirement; and

(b) modify, as respects any ship plying on short inter- national voyages, any of the requirements of the regulations relating to construction, made under this sub-section, which implement the provisions of the said Safety Convention contained in Regulations IX, X, XV and XIX thereof, if and to the extent that he is satisfied that that requirement is neither reasonable nor practicable in the case of that ship. Until such instructions and regulations are issued or made by the Governor in Council under this sub-section the Govern- ment surveyors shall execute their duties in accordance with the Instructions to Surveyors issued by the Board of Trade.