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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 24, 1936.

No. 384

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conven- tions) Act, 1925, which has been applied, with the modifica- tions and adaptations specified in the Merchant Shipping (Hong Kong) Order, 1936, to British Ships registered in this Colony, is published for general information.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

24th April, 1936.

15 AND 16 GEORGE V, CHAPTER 42.

Amendment

of s. 158

of Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

An Act to give effect to certain Draft Conventions adopted by the International Labour Conference relating respec- tively to an unemployment indemnity for seamen in the case of loss or foundering of their ship, the minimum age for the admission of young persons, to employment as trimmers and stokers, and the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed at

sea.

[31st July, 1925.]

WHEREAS at Genoa the General Conference of the Inter- national Labour Organisation of the League of Nations on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty, adopted a draft convention concerning unemployment indemnity for seamen in case of loss or foundering of their ship, and at Geneva on the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, adopted two other draft conventions, namely, a draft convention fixing the minimum age for the admission of young persons to employment as trimmers and stokers, and a draft convention concerning the compulsory medical examination of children and young persons employed at sea :

And whereas the said draft conventions contain (together with other provisions) the provisions set out in Parts I., II. and III. respectively of the First Schedule to this Act:

And whereas it is expedient that for the purpose of giving effect to the said draft conventions such provision should be made as is contained in this Act:

BE it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:--

1.-(1) Where by reason of the wreck or loss of a ship on which a seaman is employed his service terminates before the date contemplated in the agreement, he shall, notwith- standing anything in section one hundred and fifty-eight of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, but subject to the pro- visions of this section, be entitled, in respect of each day on