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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30г¤ NOVEMBER 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 490.
The following Circular Despatch with its enclosures is published for general information..
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th November, 1889.
A. LISTER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
CIRCULAR.
Downt
1889.
under
SIR, I have the honour to transmit to you for information and publication your Government, a copy of "An Act to amend the Law relating to the use of Flags ine British Merchant Service," passed in the last Session of Parliament. I also enclose for publication and for insertion in any Volumes of the Colonial Regulations in use in the Colony, an amended paragraph to be substituted for number six of Section 432 in chapter 20 relating to the use of Flags.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
Enclosure 1.
KNUTSFORD
A.D. 1889.
Explanation of
colours for ships.
CHAPTER 73.
An Act to amend the Law relating to the use of Flags in the British
Merchant Service.
[30th August 1889.]
E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. The red ensign usually worn by merchant ships, without any defacement or law as to national modification whatsoever, is hereby declared to be the proper national colours for all ships and boats belonging to any Subject of Her Majesty, except in the case of Her Majesty's ships or boats, or in the case of any other ship or boat for the time being allowed to wear any other national colours in pursuance of a warrant from Her Majesty or from the Admiralty.
Penalty on ship not showing colours.
Amendment of s.
105 of the Mer- chant Shipping
2.-(1.) A ship belonging to any subject of Her Majesty shall, on a signal being made to her by one of Her Majesty's ships, and on entering or leaving any foreign port, and if of fifty tons gross tonnage or upwards shall also on entering or leaving any British port, hoist the proper national colours.
(2.) If default is made on board any such ship in complying with the requirements of this section, the master of the ship shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.
Provided that this section shall not apply to any sea fishing boat duly registered, lettered, and marked as required by the Acts relating to the sea fisheries.
3.-(1.) Any penalty incurred under section one hundred and five of the Mer- chant Shipping Act, 1854, in respect of the improper hoisting of colours or of a pendant on board any ship or boat belonging to any subject of Her Majesty, with the costs of recovering the penalty, may be recovered in Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in England or Ireland, or in the Court of Session in Scotland, or in any Vice- Admiralty Court within Her Majesty's dominions.
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