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C.S.O. 1034/13.

A BILL

[No. 20-11.5.39.-2.1

Short title.

New heading

to section 39

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,

1899.

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 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1939.

to

2. The heading "Junks and other Chinese vessels of Ordinance Section 39 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the heading "Junks, lighters and craft not provided for under other parts of this Ordinance · is sub- stituted therefor.

No. 10 of

1899.

Suspending clause.

2)

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies by proclamation that it is His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other proclamation.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Part X of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, No. 10 of 1899, as it appeared in Sir John Carrington's Revised Edition (1902) of the Ordinances of Hong Kong, was headed Junks and small boats". It contained two sections, 39 and 40, headed respectively "Junks" and "Boats, lighters, hulks, etc.".

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2. After certain amendments and replacements effected by section 11 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1905 and section 4 of Ordinance No. 16 of 1906, Ordinance No. 48 of 1911 was passed substituting a new section 39 with the heading “Junks and small beats and repealing section 40.

3. By section 53 of the General Revision Ordinance, No. 8 of 1912, the heading was altered to "Junks and other Chinese vessels ".

4. This heading has proved inconvenient as it hinders the licensing of oil or water lighters under Tables T and U of the regulations under section 39 of the principal Ordinance unless they happen to be of Chinese type.

5. The object of clause 2 of this Bill is to replace the present inconvenient heading to section 39 by the words Junks, lighters and craft not provided for under other parts of this Ordinance". It will then be practicable for the Governor in Council to alter by regulation the similarly restrictive heading to Table U on page 373 of Volume I of the Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 Edition).

6. Clause 3 of the Bill is the suspending clause usual in Ordinances relating to Merchant Shipping.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

May, 1939.