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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 12, 1912.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 113.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

21st February, 1912.

SIR,-With reference to my Circular despatch of the 8th of March, 1911, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of an Act, which received the Royal Assent on the 16th of December last, entitled "the Maritime Conventions Act, 1911," amending the law elating to merchant shipping so as to enable effect to be given toe Conventions dealing with

fisions and salvage which were signed at the Conference at russels in 1910.

2. I have to call your attention to the provision in section 9 (1) extending the Act throughout His Majesty's dominions and to territories under his protection and to Cyprus.

I have, etc.,

L. HARCOURT.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

A.D. 1911.

Section.

MARITIME CONVENTIONS ACT, 1911.

[1 & 2 GEO. 5. Cн. 57.]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Irovisions as to Collisions, &c.

1. Rule as to division of loss.

2. Damages for personal injuries.

3. Right of contribution.

4. Abolition of statutory presumptions of fault.

5. Jurisdiction in cases of loss of life or personal injury.

Provisions as to Salvage.

6. General duty to render assistance to persons in danger at sea. 7. Apportionment of salvage amongst owners, &, of foreign ship.

8. Limitation of actions.

9. Application of Act.

General Provisions.

10. Short title and construction.

CHAPTER 57.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Merchant Shipping with a view to enabling

certain Conventions to be carried into effect.

WH

[16th December, 1911.]

HEREAS at the Conference held at Brussels in the year nineteen hundred and ten two conventions, dealing respectively with collisions between vessels and with salvage, were signed on behalf of His Majesty, and it is desirable that such amendments should be made in the law relating to merchant shipping as will enable effect to be given to the conventions ;

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 :—