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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

(b) the class of cargoes or passengers which may be earried in the ship, and

(e) the hiring of the ship, and the terms upon which cargoes or passengers may be carried in the ship,

and may also contain provisions for requiring any ship in respect of which such a licence is in force to comply with any directions given by such authority or person as may be specified in the order as to the ports to which the ship is to proceed for any particular purposes.

Any provision of an order under this paragraph may be framed so as to apply to any specified class of ship registered in this Colony, and so as to apply to any such ships either wherever they may be or while in such waters, or engaged in such trades or on such voyages, as may be specified in the

order.

(2) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of an order made under this regulation, or if otherwise there is any contravention of such an order in the case of a ship, the master of the ship and the person having the management thereof shall each be guilty of an offence against this regulation.

(3) An authorized officer may, in relation to any ship. take such steps, and use such force, as may appear to that person to be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with any order under this regulation relating to the ship, or, where an offence against this regulation has occurred in the case of the ship, for enabling proceedings in respect of the offence to be effectually taken.

40.--(1) Except under permission granted by the Control of

Governor-

(a) no light, buoy, beacon or other apparatus used in This Colony for the purpose of aiding navigation in or on the water, shall be discontinued, altered or removed; and

(b) no variation shall be made in the mode of exhibiting or operating any such light, buoy, beacon or other apparatus.

(2) The Governor may, if it appears to him to be neces- sary in the interests of public safety or defence so to do, give directions for prohibiting or restricting the exhibition or operation of, or requiring the removal, alteration or conceal- ment of, or the making of any variation in the mode of exhibiting or operating, any such light, buoy, beacon or other apparatus as aforesaid.

(3) If this regulation, or any direction given under this regulation, is contravened or not complied with in the case of any light, buoy, beacon or other apparatus, the person responsible for the maintenance of the light, buoy, beacon or apparatus, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation; and, in the case of a failure to comply with any such direction as aforesaid requiring the removal, alteration or concealment of any light, buoy, beacon or other apparatus, the Governor may (without prejudice to any pro- ceedings which may be taken in respect of the offence) cause to be done all such work as may be necessary for securing compliance with the direction.

lighthouses.

etc.

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