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'Passenger."
Voyage."
Long voyage."
Short voyage."
**Chief Officer of Customs."
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1876.
the expression "Passenger" means a person above the age of twelve years, or two persons between the ages of one year and twelve years; but it does not include a person in attendance on another person who is not a Native of Asia or Africa, nor a child under one year of age:
the expression "voyage" means the whole distance between the ship's port of departure and her final port of arrival :
the expression "long voyage" means any voyage during which the ship performing it will under ordinary circumstances be one hundred and twenty hours or upwards continuously out of port:
the expression "short voyage" means any voyage during which the ship performing it will never under ordinary circumstances be one hundred and twenty hours continuously out of port:
Illustration.
A ship starts from port A, and is destined finally to arrive at port B, between which ports the ordinary distance is ten days: but she is to touch at four intermediate ports, no one of which is under ordinary circumstances more than five days from the next
This is a short voyage.
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the expression "Chief Officer of Customs means the executive officer of highest rank in the Depart- ment of Customs in any port to which this Act applies.
Ship to sail only from
ports appointed by Government.
Master to give notice
CHAPTER II.
RULES FOR ALL VOYAGES,
6. No ship carrying passengers shall depart or proceed from, or shall discharge passengers at, any port or place within British India other than such ports and places as the Local Government may from time to time appoint in this behalf;
and after any ship has departed or proceeded upon any voyage from a port or place so appointed, no person shall be received on board as a passenger, except at some other port or place so appointed.
7. The Master, Owner or Agent of every ship so departing or proceeding shall give notice to an of day of sailing; &c. officer authorized in this behalf by the Local Government that the ship is to carry Native passengers, and
of her destination, and of the proposed time of sailing.
Power to enter and inspect ship.
Not to sail without two certificates.
Port-clearance.
Contents of certificate A.
Contents of certificate B.
Grant of certificate B.
Grant of certificate A.
Ship may be surveyed.
Proviso as to ships holding certificate mentioned in section 13.
Expense of survey,
Certificate not to be
Such notice shall be given not less than twenty-four hours before such time.
8. After receiving such notice, the officer aforesaid, or any person authorized by him, shall be at liberty at all times to enter and inspect the ship and the fittings, provisions and stores therein.
9. No ship intended to carry passengers shall commence any voyage from any port or place appointed under this Act, unless the Master holds two certificates to the effect hereinafter mentioned.
And the officer of Government whose duty it is to grant a port-clearance for such ship shall not grant the same unless the Master holds such certificates.
10. The first of such certificates (hereinafter called 'certificate A') shall state that the ship is sea- worthy and properly equipped, fitted and ventilated; and the number of passengers that she is capable of carrying.
11. The second of such certificates (hereinafter called certificate B') shall state-
(a) the voyage which the ship is intended to make, and the intermediate ports (if any) at which she is intended to touch;
(b) that she has the proper complement of officers and seamen;
(c) that provisions, fuel and pure water, over and above what is necessary for the crew, and the other things (if any) prescribed for the ship by rule under section forty-six, have been placed on board, of the quality prescribed by rule under the sanie section, properly packed, and sufficient to supply the passengers on board during the declared duration of the intended voyage, according to the scale for the time being prescribed by rule under the same section;
(d) that the Master holds certificate A;
(e) if she is intended to make a short voyage in a season of foul weather, and to carry upper-deck passengers, that she is furnished with substantial bulwarks and a double awning or other sufficient protec- tion against the weather;
(7) such other particulars (if any) as may for the time being be required for such ship under this Act.
12. The person by whom certificate B is to be granted shall in all cases be the officer referred to in
section seven.
13. The person by whom certificate A is to be granted shall be the officer aforesaid, except that, if the Master of a ship produce to such officer either of the following certificates (namely)—
(a) a valid certificate granted by the Board of Trade or by any British Colonial Government; (b) a certificate granted under the authority of any British Indian Government, and dated not more than six months before the proposed day of sailing,
and if the particulars required by section ten are certified thereby,
such officer may take any such certificate as evidence of such particulars, and it shall then be a valid certificate for the purposes of this Act.
14. After receiving the notice required by section seven, the officer aforesaid may, if he think fit, cause the ship to be surveyed at the expense of the Master or Owner by competent surveyors, who shall report to him whether the ship is, in their opinion, seaworthy and properly equipped, fitted and ventilated for her intended voyage:
Provided that he shall not cause any ship holding any certificate mentioned in section thirteen, clause (a) or clause (b), to be surveyed unless, from the ship having met with damage or having undergone altera- tions, or on other reasonable ground, he considers it likely that she may be found unseaworthy or not properly equipped, fitted or ventilated for her intended voyage.
If the officer aforesaid causes a survey to be made of any vessel holding any such certificate, and if the surveyors report that the vessel is seaworthy and properly equipped, fitted and ventilated for her intended voyage, and that there was no reasonable ground why the officer aforesaid should have thought it likely that she would be found unseaworthy, or not properly equipped, fitted or ventilated for her intended voyage, the expense of the survey shall be paid by the Local Government.
15. The officer authorized to grant a certificate under this Act, in respect of any slip, shall not grant granted where cargo the same, unless he is satisfied that she has not on board any cargo likely from its quality, quantity, or
mode of stowage, to prejudice the health or safety of the passengers.
dangerous or
dangerously stowed. Discretion of officer.
But save as aforesaid, and subject to the provisions of section sixteen, the grant or withholding of a certificate under this chapter shall in all cases be in the discretion of the officer aforesaid,
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