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23. The licensee shall not carry or attempt to carry passengers in excess of the authorised complement of any ferry vessel.

24. The licensee shall not load any ferry vessel so as to cause danger to the vessel or persons on board.

25. No person shall travel or attempt to travel in any ferry vessel after being requested to leave it by any servant of the licensee.

26. No person shall trespass on any pier or part of a pier exclusively reserved for a ferry.

27. No person shall alight or attempt to alight from, or enter or attempt to enter, any ferry vessel while in motion or otherwise than by the proper entrances or exits.

28. All persons holding tickets shall on demand show them and deliver them up to any servant of the licensee.

29. No person shall embark on or disembark from any ferry vessel from or to any sampan, boat, or other craft.

30. No intoxicated person shall travel or attempt to travel on any ferry vessel.

31. No launch, sampan, boat, or other craft shall make fast to or use or embark or disembark passengers at any pier or part of a pier exclusively reserved for a ferry.

MAINTENANCE OF FERRY PIERS.

32. Piers employed for the purposes of a ferry shall be built (if necessary), adapted, and maintained by the Government. They shall be provided, by the Government, with such barriers, gates, turnstiles, ticket offices, and other superstructure as may be necessary for the efficient working of the ferry.

INSUFFICIENT USER OF A FERRY.

33. If it shall be represented in writing to the Governor in Council by the Harbour Master or by 20 inhabitant rate-payers that the public are not afforded the full benefit of a ferry, the Governor in Council may (if satisfied that primâ facie the case is one for enquiry) appoint a person to enquire into the matter and report thereon, and if the truth of the representation shall be proved the Governor in Council may issue an order to the licensee requiring him to provide such a service as will afford to the public the full benefit of the ferry and such order may prescribe the number of ferry vessels which the licensee shall run and the times at which they shall be run. Every such order shall be posted to the licensee at his last known address and published in the Gazette: Provided that the Governor in Council shall before issuing any such order be satisfied that under good and economical management the prescribed service will be fairly remunerative to the licensee; and that, after the licensee shall have complied with such order for not less than 30 days the Governor in Council may on the application of the licensee revoke or modify any such

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34. If for the period of three months after the posting of such order and its publica- tion in the Gazette the licensee shall fail or neglect to comply therewith the ferry shall be deemed to have been discontinued and shall be dealt with accordingly.

DISCONTINUANCE OF A FERRY.

35.(1.) If in the opinion of the Governor in Council the licensee shall have discon- tinued the working of the ferry or any part thereof for a period of fourteen days the Governor in Council may by order declare that the powers and privileges of the licensee in respect of the ferry or part thereof so discontinued shall from the date of the order be at an end and thereupon all the powers and privileges of the said licensee in respect of the said ferry or part thereof shall cease and determine.