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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 170.-The following bill, which it is proposed to introduce at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, is published for general information.
C.S.O. 3 in 4299/29.
[No. 7-31.5.29.-1.]
A BILL
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
Prohibition of Sunday working.
Regulations.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the restriction of the loading, working and discharging of cargo on Sunday.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1929.
2. In this Ordinance--
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(a) Cargo" does not include mails, personal luggage, live stock, ice, or articles of food of a perish- able nature required for immediate consumption ;
(b) "Harbour Master" includes any person autho- rised or deputy by him to perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him by this Ordinance;
(e) "Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation, over 60 ton net register, propelled by machinery, except ships of war belonging to His Majesty or to any foreign government.
3.—(1) No person shall receive on board, load on, work on or along side, or discharge from, any ship any cargo on Sunday except under and in accordance with a permit issued by the Harbour Master under this Ordinance.
(2) If any cargo is received, loaded, worked or dis- charged contrary to any of the provisions of sub-section (1), the master, and the owners, charterers (if any), and agents, of the ship in question shall, without prejudice to the criminal liability of themselves or of any other person, be deemed jointly and severally to have incurred a debt to the Crown, by way of forfeiture, equal to twice the amount of the Sunday permit fee which would have been payable under this Ordinance in respect of the ship in question.
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to made regulations for any of the following purposes :—
(a) providing the form of Sunday permits; (b) imposing obligations on the applicants for and holders of Sunday permits, and on the owners, charterers, agents, and masters, of ships on or from which cargo is received, loaded, worked or discharged on Sunday;
(c) 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,
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