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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 8, 1913.

HONGKONG.

No. 25 of 1913.

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping

Ordinance, 1899.

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I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor,

[8th August, 1913.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Ship- Short title. ping Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899 (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance) and the Ordinances amending the same and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Ordinances, 1899-1913.

2. Section 39, sub-section (14), of the Principal Ordi- nance as re-enacted by section 4 of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1911, is hereby amended as fol- lows:-

Amendment of section 39 of Principal Ordinance as re-enacted by section 4

(a.) by the insertion of the words "except licensed of Ordinance

fishing junks' between the words "junk" No. 48 of and "shall" in the first line thereof.

(6.) by the substitution of a "full stop" for the

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comma" after the word "inclusive" in the fifth line thereof.

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(e) by the deletion of the words “ except in the ease of a licensed fishing junk which obtained a special permit from the Harbour Master" in the fifth, sixth and seventh lines thereof.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th day of August, 1913.

1911.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of August, 1913.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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