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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 1936.

Overtime Charges.

21.—(a) Whenever Surveyors are called upon to per- form services out of official hours application should be made to the Government Marine Surveyor and an undertaking given to pay the overtime charges.

(b) Official hours are to be regarded as from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and overtime is charged according to the following scale :-

On weeks days:-

from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

to 6 p.m.

from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

before 6 a.m. and after 8 p.m.

on Sundays and holidays

$15 per hour.

$30

per hour.

$60 per hour.

$60 per hour.

(c) A service occupying less than an hour will be charged for as one hour, according to the scale. For services exceeding one hour, a quarter fee will be charged for every quarter or part quarter of an hour, according to the scale, but for a service exceeding ten hours in any one case the charge will be limited to that for ten hours. These charges cover the services of all the Surveyors engaged in the survey, except if the services of an Engineer Surveyor in addition to those of an Emigration Officer are required before an emigrant ship can be cleared, the survey made by the Engineer Surveyor will be regarded as a separate one, and overtime charges will be made in respect of both officers.

(d) If, from unforeseen circumstances, the duty cannot be commenced at the hour stated on the form of application, or cannot be completed without interruption, the time during which the Surveyors are kept waiting is to be charged for a half the usual overtime rate subject to the limit of ten hours for the whole service.

(e) Time occupied in travelling between the shore and the ship is to be charged for at half the usual overtime rate.

(f) As the tests of illumination of ship's sides, search- lights for ship's lifeboats and visibility of navigation lights can only be made satisfactorily after dark, therefore, neces- sarily out of office hours, only one-half the usual overtime rate is to be charged for such tests.

Attendance at Legal Proceedings.

22. If a Surveyor is served with a subpoena, and is permitted by the Government to attend a Court of Law or Public Inquiry in his capacity as a Government Official, to give evidence or to make a statement, a fee of $75 per day is to be charged for the Surveyor's attendance.