678 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.
Regulations.
Offences.
Penalty.
Seizure of ferry vessel.
Exemption.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations :-
(a) for licensing and regulating ferries and ferry
vessels ;
(b) for defining the conditious of any licence to be
issued under this Ordinance;
(c) for prescribing the fees rent or premium to be paid in respect of any licence to be issued under this Ordinance ;
(d) for declaring the areas to which section 3 of
this Ordinance is to apply;
(e) for excluding from the operation of this Ordi- nance any specified ferry or any ferry plying to or from any specified point or points within or without the Colony;
(f) for granting exclusive rights of maintaining
ferries;
(g) generally for the purposes of this Ordinance.
6. Every person who shall contravene any of the provisious of this Ordinance or of any regulation made under this Ordinance, and every person who shall contra- vene any of the provisions of any condition of any licence issued under this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
7. Every person who shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary con- viction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
8. Any police officer may seize any vessel which he may reasonably suspect is being used to commit any offence against this Ordinance and any vessel so seized may be detained by the Captain Superintendent of Police until the conclusion of any proceedings taken under this Ordinance and until the payment of any fine which may be imposed in such proceedings: Provided that the Captain Superin- tendent of Police may release any such vessel so seized upon security to his satisfaction being provided for the payment of any fine which may be imposed in such proceedings.
9. This Ordinance shall not apply to any ferry main- tained by the Star Ferry Company Limited between the pier situate opposite to Ice House Street, Victoria, and the pier situate at Kowloon Point and known as to its western portion as the "Star Ferry Pier" and as to its eastern portion as the "Railway Pier", nor shall it affect any rights conferred on the said Company by the terms of the lease to the said Company of the said pier situate opposite to Ice House Street aforesaid.
Passed the Legislative Comucil of Hongkong, this 29th day of November, 1917.
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E. BULLOCK,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 30th day of November, 1917.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.
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