226405-1936-Merchant-Shipping-Hong-Kong-Order-1936 — Page 2

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 24, 1936.

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the provisions of the Act should, subject to the modifications and adaptations specified in this Order, apply to ships registered in Hong Kong (hereinafter referred to as the Colony) in like manner as they apply to ships registered in the United Kingdom :

NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to direct, and it is hereby directed, as follows:-

1. The provisions of the Act shall apply to British ships registered in the Colony in like manner as they apply to ships registered in the United Kingdom subject to the following modifications and adaptations, that is to say:--

(1) For the expressions "the Board of Trade" and "officers of the Board of Trade" there shall be respectively substituted the expressions "the Governor' and 'officers authorised for such purpose by the Governor';

(2) In subsection (3) of Section 1 of the Act the words from "but in case of a ship" to the end of the subsection shall be omitted;

(3) The first paragraph of Section 5 of the Act shall be amended by the insertion of the words ", in the opinion of the court having cognizance of any case in relation to such person, after the words "who is";

(4) The second paragraph of Section 5 of the Act shall be omitted and the following paragraph shall be substituted therefor :-

"The expression 'ship' means any sea-going ship or boat of any description which is registered in Hong Kong as a British ship but does not include---

(a) any tug, dredger, sludge vessel, barge or other craft whose ordinary course of navigation does not extend beyond the waters of the Colony if and so long as such vessel is engaged in her ordinary occupation;

(b) any River Steamer as defined by Section 2 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1899 of the Legislature of the Colony; or

(c) any fishing boat".

2. This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Hong Kong) Order, 1936.

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M. P. A. HANKEY.