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THE HONGKONG

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No. 15.

號五十第

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1897.

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VOL. XLIII.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 114.

The following Order of Her Majesty in Council is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd April, 1897.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR.

The 27th day of November, 1896.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

HEREAS by Section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Her Majesty is empowered

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from time to time on the joint recommendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade by Order in Council to make regulations for preventing collisions at sea:

And whereas by Section 434 of the said Act Her Majesty is empowered from time to time by Order in Council to make rules as to signals of distress :

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, and expressed to be made in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and on the joint recom- mendation of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade, Her Majesty was pleased to direct that, on and after the first day of September, 1884, the regulations contained in the Sche lule thereto (being regu lations for preventing collisions at sea and as to signals of distress) should be substituted for the regulations contained in the First Schedule to an Order in Council made under the same Act and on such joint recommendations as aforesaid and dated the 14th day of August, 1879:

And whereas the Admiralty and the Board of Trade have jointly recommended to Her Majesty that the Regulations for preventing collisions at sea contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, except the Article numbered 10 in such Regulations, should, on and after the 1st day of July, 1897, be annulled, and that the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea contained in Schedule I. hereto annexed should, on and after the last-mentioned date, be substituted therefor, with the exception aforesaid, and come into operation as regards British ships and boats:

And whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that it is expedient that the Regulations or Rules as to signals of distress contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council dated the 11th day of August, 1884, should, on and after the said first day of July, 1897, be annulled and that the rules as to signals of distress contained in Schedule II. hereto annexed should, on and after the last- mentioned date, be substituted therefor and come into operation as regards British ships and boats:

And whereas the provisions of Section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with: