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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.

Colonial rein

Merchant

12. Every ship, (except Chinese junks or lorchas,) provided tered ships to with a Colonial register under this section shall be, in every res- be subject to pect, subject to the provisions of part I of this Ordinance and Shipping Acts, (except where the same are inconsistent with the terms of this section) to the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,” and to the Acts amending the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as British ships registered under the said Acts are subject thereto, in the waters of this Colony, or in trading therein or therefrom.

&c.

Duration of Colonial register.

(Ibid, sec.10.)

Rules as to

13. Any Colonial register granted under this section shan be in force and effect for one year from the date of such register, and no longer, and such register shall be renewable by endorse- ment on the same, under the hand of the Governor, if he shall so think fit.

CHAPTER II.

REGULATIONS CONCERNING SAFETY.

Boats for Sea-going Ships.

IV. The following rules shall be observed with respect to boats, poats and life rafts and life buoys, that is to say--

buoys.

(M.S.A.1854,

sec. 292.)

(M. S. A.,

1873, sec 15.)

Penalties on masters and owners, &c., neglecting to provide boats and life buoys. (M. S. A., 1854, sec.293.)

Harbour Mas-

(a.) No decked British ship (except ships used solely as steam tugs) shall proceed to sea from this Colony unless she is provided, according to her tonnage, with boats duly sup- plied with all requisites for use, and not being fewer in number nor less in their cubic contents than the boats the number and cubic contents of which are specified in the table marked A in the schedule hereto for the class to which such ship belongs: Provided that the Governor may, at the request of the owner, or master, authorize the reduction of the number and the variation of the dimensions. of such boats and also the substitution of rafts or other appliances for saving life for any such boats, so never- theless that the boats so reduced or varied and the rafts or other appliances so substituted be sufficient for the persons carried on board the ship: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, or at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, peal the said table marked d, or to make a new table. in lieu thereof. Every such new table and every altera- tion, amendment, or repeal of the said table A shall be published in the Gazette, and after such publication, shall be as valid to all intents and proposes as if such TV or amended table had been originally inserted,

adule thr vance. (b.) No such ship carrying mo.

pasigers shall pro- ceed to sea from any place in the Colony, unless, in addition to the boats hereinbefore required, she is also provided with a life boat furnished with all requisites for use, or unless one of her boats hereinbefore required is rendered buoyant after the manner of a life boat. (c.) No such ship as last aforesaid shall proceed to sea, unless

she is also provided with two life buoys ;-

2. In any

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And such boats and life buoys shall be kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use: Provided, that the enactments with respect to boats and life buoys herein contained shall not apply in any case in which a certificate has been duly obtained under the twenty- seventh section of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855.”

of the following cases, that is to say :-- (a.) If any ship herein before required to be provided with boats, rafts or life buoys proceeds to sea without being so pro- vided therewith, or if any such boats, rafts, life buoys, or other appliances for saving life are lost or rendered unfit for service in the course of the voyage through the wilful fault or negligence of the owner or master; or, (b.) If in case of any of such boats, rafts, life buoys, or other appliances for saving life being accidentally lost or injured in the course of the voyage, the master wil- fully neglects to replace or repair the same on the first opportunity; or,

(e.) If such boats, rafts, life buoys, and other appliances for saving life are not kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use;

Then if the owner appears to be in fault he shall incur a penalty not. exceeding five hundred dollars, and if the master appears to be in fault he shall incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. 3. The Harbour Master shall not grant a clearance for any ter not to clear ship hereinbefore required to be provided with boats, rafts, life ships not buoys, or other appliances for saving life unless the same is duly with the above so provided; and if any such ship attempts to go to sea without provisions. such clearance, the Harbour Master may detain her until she is so (M. S. A. 1854, provided.

complying

sec. 294.)