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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 12, 1929.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,

No. 177.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 37 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, on the 10th day of April, 1929.

1. Table E in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is hereby further amended as follows:-

(1) by the rescission of paragraph (e) in regulation 3, as set forth in Government Notification No. 77 published in the Gazette of the 15th February, 1924, and by the substitution therefor of the following paragraph:---

(e) that the vessel is equipped with life-saving appliances in accordance

with the regulations contained in this Table.

(2) by the insertion of the following regulation:-

40. Every launch or motor boat, when plying or being used as a ferry, shall be equipped with life-saving appliances consisting of standard life buoys, standard life belts and standard life-saving rafts suffi- cient for not less than fifty per cent. of the number of persons the vessel is licensed to carry. The proportion of each of such classes of life-saving appliances shall be determined by the Harbour Master in each case. Every launch or motor boat, when not so plying or being so used, or which does not so ply or which is not so used shall be equipped with life-saving appliances as follows: --

() Vessels in Class I shall be equipped with at least 2 standard life buoys, and with standard life belts for not less than fifty per cent. of the number of persons the vessel is licensed to

carry.

(ii) Vessels in Class II shall be equipped with at least 4 standard life buoys, and with standard life belts for not less than fifty per cent. of the number of persons the vessel is licensed to carry, also with standard life rafts or buoyant deck seats sufficient to accommodate not less than fifteen per cent. of the said number.

(iii) Vessels in Class III shall be equipped with at least one boat, in such a position that it can be readily got into the water, and with at least 8 standard life buoys, and with standard life belts for not less than fifty per cent. of the number of persons the vessel is licensed to carry, also with standard life rafts or buoyant deck seats to accommodate not less than twenty per cent. of the said number.

2. These regulations shall come into operation on the First day of October, 1929.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

10th April, 1929.

D. W. TRATMAN,

Clerk of Councils.