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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1905.

A BILL

Short title and con- struction.

Amendment

of section 2 of the Prin- cipal Ordin-

ance.

Amendment of section 4 (2) of the Principal Ordinance exempting certain ships in certain Cases from the operation thereof.

Amendment. of section 4 (3) of the

Principal Ordinance exempting

certain ships in certain cases from

the operation thereof.

Repeal of sub-section

(1) of section 25 of the Principal Ordinance

and new sub-section substituted with respect to lights on junks.

ENTITLED

An Ordinance further to amend the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899, and for other pur- poses.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be eited as the Merchant Ship- ping Amendment Ordinance, 1905, and shall be read and construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amend- ed by the addition thereto of the following definition :--

""International Collision Regulations" mean the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea made auder the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894,

or any Regulations amending the same." 3. Section 4 (2) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as a proviso:—

"Provided that any British or Colonial ship exceeding 60 tons but not exceeding 300 tons regularly plying and for so long as it is regularly plying between the Colony and any places on the Canton or West River or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung or Kwangsi province or between the Colony and Macao shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if it does not carry more than twelve passengers and is provided with a duly certificated master and if a steamship with an engineer who possesses a certificate of competency from the Harbour Master of Hongkong."

4. Section 4 (3) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by adding thereto the following as a proviso:-

“Provided that any British or Colonial ship not exceeding 60 tons regularly plying and for so long as it is regularly plying between the Colony and any places on the Canton or West River or any river in the interior of the Kwangtung or Kwangsi province or between the Colony and Macao shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of this sub-section if carrying passengers it complies with the regulations contained in Table E of the Schedule of the Principal Ordinance and is provided with a who possesses a certificate of competency from the Harbour Master of Hongkong and if a steamship is also provided with an engineer who possesses a like certificate."

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5. Sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Principal Ordi- nance, as amended by section 13 of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1903, is hereby repealed, and the following sub-section is substituted therefor :—

** (1). Every junk under way in the waters of the

Colony shall, from sunset till suurise, carry either-

(a). The lights prescribed for sailing vessels undeo

way by the International Collision Regu lations; or

(b). Two bright white lights, one of which shall be placed at the foremast head and shall be of such a character as to be visible all round the horizon on a dark night with a clear atmosphere at a distance of at least one mile, and the other of which shall be placed in the stern at a height above the hull of not less than six feet and shall also be of such charac- ter as to be visible all round the horizon at the said distance.

For every omission to comply with the requirements of this sub-section, the master or other person for the time being in charge shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars."