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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH OCTOBER, 1890.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1873, entitled “The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873."
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Article 8 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1873 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done thereunder.
2. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one with Ordinance No. 8 of 1873 and instead of the repealed article the following words and figures shall be inserted in lieu thereof.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor to make, revoke and vary bye-laws for regulating the place at which ships carrying or about to carry dangerous goods are to be moored in any of the harbours of the Colony, and are to land, ship or tranship such goods, and for regulating the time and mode of, and the precautions to be taken on such landing, shipping, or transhipping: Provided always that no such bye-law or any revocation or variation thereof shall come into force until the same shall have been published in the Gazette..
Where any ship is moored or cargo shipped, transhipped or landed, or otherwise dealt with in contravention of any bye-law for the time being in force, the owner and master of such ship, or the owner of such cargo, as the case may be, shall each incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each day during which such contra- vention continues, and it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any other person acting under the orders of the Harbour Master to cause such ship or cargo to be removed at the expense of the owner thereof to such place as may be in conformity with the said bye-law, and all expenses incurred in such removal may be recovered in the same manner in which penalties are by this Ordinance made recoverable.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 15 of 1888 entitled "The Rating Ordinance, 1888.”
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one with Ordinance No. 15 of 1888.
2. The said Ordinance No. 15 of 1888 is hereby amended as follows:
1. In section 3 sub-section 1 by substituting for the words "Schedule A" the words Form A (1).
2. In sections 5 and 20 by adding after the words
"Form A" the figure (1).
3. In sections 10, 11, and 25 by substituting for the
word "Schedule" the word "Form.”
4. In Form A. (1) by substituting for the words "Note. The owner or occupier of any Tenement" the words "Note.-Any person."
3. Section 42 of the said Ordinance is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect the validity of anything duly done, or of any conviction thereunder, nor shall it affect any punishment incurred or inflicted thereunder.
4. In place of such repealed section the words following shall be substituted, namely:-
The penalties hereinafter mentioned for offences against this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary way before a Magistrate at any time within two years from the commission of the offence.
1. Any owner or occupier of a tenement who refuses or neglects to furnish the particulars required by section 3 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
2. Any person who shall knowingly furnish any false or incorrect particulars specified in Form A.(1) hereto shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each tenement in respect to which such false or incorrect particulars are furnished.
Bye-laws as to ship landing or shipping dangerous goods.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 105 a. 4.
Ordinance to
be read with No. 15 of 1889,
Sections 3, 10, 11, 20, and 25 and form A (1) amended.
Repeal of sec. 42 of Ordi- nance 15 of 1888.
Section sub- stituted for
section 42.
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