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Short title.

Amendment

of section 1

of Principal

Ordinance.

Amendment of section 2 of Principal Ordinance.

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Ordinance.

Amendment

of section 4

of Principal Ordinance.

Amendment

of section 5 of Principal Ordinance.

Amendment

of section 7 of Principal Ordinance.

Amendment

of section 9 of Principal Ordinance.

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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to extend the provisions of the Steam Launch (Protection against Piracy) Ordinance, 1900, to certain classes of steamers.

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 Steam Launch and River Trade Steamer (Protection against Piracy) Ordi- nance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Steam Launch (Protection against Pirner) Ordinance, 1900, (hereinafter called te Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Steam Launch and River Trade Steamer (Protection against Piracy) Ordinances, 1900 and 1913.

2. Section 1 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion of the words "and River Trade Steamer" after the word "Launch" in the first line thereof.

3. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following para- graph:-

"In this Ordinance, River Trade Steamer' means a steamship of more than 60 tons register, regularly plying with cargo or passengers between the Colony and any port or place on the Canton River or the West River or any river in the interior of the Kwang Tung or Kwang Si Provinces, or Macan, and any Bri- tish steamship of more than 60 tons register so plying from, to, or between such ports."

4. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the addition of the words " owner, agent, charterer or " after the word "The" in the

first line thereof;

(b.) by the addition of the words "or river trade steamer" after the word "launch" in the first, sixth and seventh lines thereof;

(c.) by the addition of the words "in the case of a steam launch and in the sum of five thousand dollars in the case of a river trade steamer after the word dollars" in the fifth line there- of.

5. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is bereby amended by the addition of the words or river trade steamer after the word "launch " in the second line thereof.

6. Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the addition of the words "or river trade steamer after the word "launch in the

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second line of sub-section (1) thereof; (b.) by the addition of the words "owner, agent, charterer or" after the word "each" in the first line of sub-scetiou (2) thereof.

7. Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition of the words "or river trade steamer after the word "launch" in the sixth line there- of.

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8. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the addition of the words or passenger

certificate" after the word "licence second, third and fifth lines thereof;

in the

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