4818-1906-Transmitting-Order-in-Council-with-respect-to-Lights-and-Signals-of-Fishing-Vessels — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 6, 1906.

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And whereas the provisions of Section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with:

NOW, THEREFORE, The Lord Chancellor, The Prime Minister, and The Lord President being authorised in that behalf by writing under His Majesty's Sign Manual, by virtue of the powers vested in His Majesty by the said recited Act and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, do hereby, on His Majesty's behalf, direct that on and after the 1st day of May, 1906, the provisions of the said Article 10 in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, contained, and also the Regulations scheduled to the said Orders in Council of 30th day of December, 1884, the 24th day of June, 1885, and the 23rd day of October, 1905, so far as the same affected the provisions in the said Article 10, shall be annulled and the provisions with regard to lights and signals of fishing vessels contained in the Schedule hereto annexed shall be substituted therefor and come into -operation as regards the British ships and boats therein mentioned.

A. W. FITZROY.

SCHEDULE.

ART. 9.-Fishing-vessels and fishing-boats, when under way and when not required by this Article to carry or show the lights herein-after specified shall carry or show the lights prescribed for vessels of their tonnage under way.

(a.) Open boats, by which is to be understood boats not protected from the entry of sea water by means of a continuous deck, when engaged in any fishing

at night with outlying tackle extending not more than 150 feet horizontally

from the boat into the seaway, shall carry one all-round white light.

Seaway,

Open boats, when fishing at night, with outlying tackle extending more than 150 feet horizontally from the boat into the

shall carry one all-round white light, and in addition, on approaching or being approached by other vessels, shall show a second white light at least 3 feet below the first light and at a horizontal distance of at least 5 feet away from it in the direction in which the outlying tackle is attached.

(b.) Vessels and boats, except open boats as defined in sub-division (a), when.

fishing with drift nets, shall, so long as the nets are wholly or partly in the Such lights water, carry two white lights where they can best be seen. shall be placed so that the vertical distance between them shall be not less than 6 feet and not more than 15 feet, and so that the horizontal distance between them, measured in a line with the keel, shall be not less than 5 feet and not more than 10 feet. The lower of these two lights shall be in the direction of the nets, and both of them shall be of such a character as to show all round the horizon, and to be visible at a distance of not less than 3 miles.

Within the Mediterranean Sea and in the seas bordering the coasts of Japan and Korea sailing fishing vessels of less than 20 tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to carry the lower of these two lights; should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the net or gear) a white light, visible at a distance of not less than one sea mile, on the approach of or to other vessels.

(c) Vessels and boats, except open boats as defined in sub-division (), when line- fishing with their lines out and attached to or hauling their lines, and when not at anchor or stationary within the meaning of sub-division (h), shall carry the same lights as vessels fishing with drift-nets. When shooting lines, or fishing with towing lines, they shall carry the lights prescribed for a steam or sailing vessel under way respectively.

Within the Mediterranean Sea and in the seas bordering the coasts of Japan and Korea sailing fishing vessels of less than 20, tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to carry the lower of these two lights; should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the lines) a white light, visible at a distance of not less than one sea mile on the approach of or to other vessels.

.) Vessels, when engaged in trawling, by which is meant the dragging of an

apparatus along the bottom of the sea-

1. If steam-vessels, shall carry in the same position as the white light mentioned in Article 2 (a), a tricoloured lantern so constructed and fixed as to show a white light from right ahead to two