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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 28,

bond shall be subsisting and valid in all respects, and if any launch or ship shall leave or attempt to leave the waters of the Colony on any such voyage unless the said bond shall have been duly entered into and shall be subsist- ing and valid in all respects the muster of the said launch or ship and the owners agents charterers and licensees shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable upon conviction either summarily or on indiet- ment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

been entered into.

4. No launch shall carry any passenger from or to any No launch place in the Col ny unless the owners agents charterers or to carry licensees of the said launch shall have duly entered into a passengers bond as hereinafter required and unless sitch bond shall be except with-

in the subsisting and valid in all respects, and if any launch shall Harbour carry any passenger from or to any place in the Colony unless a unless the said bond shall have been duly ente ed into and bond has shall be subsisting and valid in all respects the master of the said launch and the owners agents charterers and licensees shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable upon conviction either, summarily or on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars : Provided that this section shall not apply to the carriage of passengers between places within the limits of the Har- bour of Victoria.

where rea-

5. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to refuse Clearance, to grant any permission or issue any document or do any etc., may be act necessary to enable any launch or ship to leave the refused waters of the Colony or a port in the Colony in respect of sonable any launch or ship with regard to which he shall have ground to reasonable cause to anticipate that any offence against the anticipate provisions of this Ordinance is about to be committed.

that an offence is about to be committed.

6. The bond herein before referred to shall be entered Nature into by the owners agents charterers or licensees with two of bond sureties approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police required. and shall in the case of a launch be in the sum of one thousand dollars and in the case of a ship be in the sum of five thousand dollars and shall be conditioned for the observance by the said owners agents charterers or licensees and their servants and employees and any person to whom the said launch or ship may be leased or chartered and the master crew and staff of the said launch or ship of all the regulations for the time being in force under this Ordinance.

7. The said bond may be in the form set forth in the Form of Schedule to this Ordinance with such alterations omissions bond. and additions if any as may be necessary.

8.-(1.) If at any time either of the sureties to any such Procedure in bond shall in the opinion of the Captain Superintendent of case of in.

valid surety. Police become or be not a proper person to be a surety to such bond it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police to give notice in writing to the owners agents charterers or licensees that such is his opinion and on the expiration of seven days from the service of such notice the said bond shall for the purposes of section 3 of this Ordinance be deemed to be no longer subsisting and valid.

(2.) Any such notice may be served either personally or by delivery thereof to some adult at the last known address of the said owners agents charterers or licensees or by registered letter addressed to the said owners agents char- terers or licensees at the said address.

breach.

9. In any case in which it is alleged that a breach has Summons to occurred of the conditions of any bond entered into in obligors in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance it shall be case of lawful for a magistrate on the application of the Captain Superintendent of Police to issue a summons calling upon the persons by whom the bond was entered into to shew cause why the sum secured by the said bond should not be forfeited: Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect any other means of enforcing the said bond.

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