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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1929.

Schedules.

Recovery of fees.

Penalty.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1891.

(e) prescribing the fees to be payable for Sunday

permits;

(d) any other purpose which the Governor in Council may consider desirable in order to restrict the receiving, loading, working or discharging of cargo on or from ships on Sunday;

(e) excluding any specified ship or class of ship

from the operation of the Ordinance,

5. The regulations in the First Schedule, the form of permit in the Second Schedule and the scale of fees in the Third Schedule, shall be in force until altered or rescinded by regulations made under this Ordinance.

6.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the fee payable in respect of any Sunday permit shall be paid within seven days after the date of issue, and if it is not so paid it shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown jointly and severally by the owners, charterers (if any), agents, and master, of the ship in respect of which the permit was granted.

(2) The fee shall not be payable if the holder of the Sunday permit satisfies the Harbour Master that no cargo was received on board, loaded or discharged, on or from the ship in question on the Sunday for which the permit was issued, and if the holder shall also have complied with all the provisions of this Ordinance and of any regulations made thereunder, so far as such provisions may relate to the Sunday permit in question.

7. Every person who contravenes any of the provi- sions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made there- under shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

8. The Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1891, and all regulations in force thereunder, are repealed.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 27th day of June, 1929.

E. I. WYNNE-JONES,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(s. 5.]

REGULATIONS.

CL

1. If any permit issued under this Ordinance is not used it must be returned to the Harbour Office before noon on the day after the Sunday for which it was issued, with the endorsement Not used" which shall be signed either by the master, or by the owners, charterers (if any), or agents, of the ship for which the permit was issued.

2. No person shall sign the endorsement referred to in Regulation 1 if in fact any cargo was received, loaded, or worked on, or discharged from, the ship for which the permit was issued on the Sunday for which it was issued.