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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 21, 1938.
General.
(6) The foregoing provisions of this section and the timber cargo regulations shall apply to load line ships not registered in Hong Kong, while they are within any port in Hong Kong, as they apply to British load line ships registered in Hong Kong.
Supplemental.
66.—(1) In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say :-
"Board of Trade" means the Lords of the Committee for the time being of H.M. Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations;
Conditions of Assignment
means such of the load line rules as are made to give effect to Part II of Annex I to the Load Line Convention;
Contravention includes, in relation to any provision, failure
to comply with that provision, and the expression contravenes shall be construed accordingly;
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Country to which the Load Line Convention applies,' means--
(a) a country the Government of which has been declared by His Majesty in Council to have ratified, or acceded to, the Load Line Convention, and has not been so declared to have denounced that Convention;
(b) a country to which it has been so declared that the Load Line Convention has been applied under the provisions of Article twenty-one thereof, not being a country to which it has been so declared that that Convention has ceased to apply under the pro- visions of that Article;
International voyage means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, either of those countries being a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, so however that for the purpose of this definition-
(a) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstances which neither the master nor the owner
nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country;
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Load Line Convention means the International Load Line Convention signed on behalf of the Government of the United King- dom in London on the 5th day of July, 1930.
'Load line rules " means the Load Line Rules made by the Board of Trade and from time to time in force.
"River trade limits means the waters in the vicinity of the Colony within the following boundaries, namely:--
On the East-Meridian 114° 30' East.
On the South-Parallel 22° 9′ North.
On the West-Meridian 113° 31' East.
and all inland waterways in the province of Kwong Tung and the province of Kwong Sai to which access can be obtained from the area defined above.
"River trade ships" means ships plying within river trade limits. "Timber cargo regulations" means the Timber Cargo Regulations made by the Board of Trade and from time to time in force in the United Kingdom.
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A valid Load Line Convention certificate means a Certificate which if produced in the United Kingdom would comply with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping (Load Line Convention Certificate Validity) Regulations made by the Board of Trade and from time to time in force in the United Kingdom.
(2) In this Part of this Act references to a ship constructed be- fore or after any date shall be construed as references to a ship, the
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