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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 6, 1931.

Where seamen are re-engaged on board the ship at the time of discharge the fee payable shall be the discharge fee plus half the engagement fee. In all the above cases the actual travelling expenses of the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Office, between that Office and the ship, shall be charged in addition.

3.-Overtime fees where seamen are engaged or discharged.

On Sundays or other General or

Public holidays :-

Before 6 2.11., and after 8

p.m......

at other times...

$20 per hour.

$10 per hour.

On Saturdays:~~

From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

$5 per hour.

From 6 am. to 8 a.m.,

and

from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Before 6 a.m, and after

$10 per hour.

8

p.m.

$20 per hour.

On other Days:-

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 10 of

1899, Schedule Table J.

Suspending clause.

From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. From 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

and

$5 per hour.

and

$10 per hour.

p...

$20 per hour.

Before 6 a.m., and after 8

On all the above occasions any portion of an hour

shall count as one hour.

3. Table J in the Schedule to the Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, 1899, is amended :-

(i) by the deletion of the word " crews in the first line of paragraph 1 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word “seamen

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(ii) by the deletion of the words or steward" in the fourth line of paragraph 1 and in the fourth line of paragraph 2 thereof and by the substitution therefor in each case of the words

steward or wireless telegraph operator". (i) by the deletion of the words * all others, except apprentices" in the last line of para- graph 1 and in the last line of paragraph 2 thereof and by the substitution therefor in each case of the words from wages of all other seamen

4. 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.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 5th day of February, 1931.

N. L. SMITH,

Clerk of Councils,