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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST OCTOBER, 1874.

Ships.

ORDINANCE No. VI. OF 1874.

An Ordinance for the Regulation of Passenger Ships.

ANDREW CLARK.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

[5th October, 1874.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to make better provision for the

regulation of Passenger Ships;

It is hereby enacted by the Governor of the Straits Settlements, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

PART I. GENERAL.

What ships to 1. Every ship arriving at, or departing from, any of the Ports he Passenger of the Colony on a voyage from or to any Port or Place without the Colony, and carrying more than 30 passengers, except as provided by Part III. for Local Passengers Ships, shall be deemed to be a Passenger Ship within the meaning of this Ordinance.

Exemption.

Native States.

Passengers to

three Ports

2. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be held to apply to any

Vessel-of-War, Transport, or hired Ship in the service of Her Majesty or of any Foreign State, nor to any Ship under contract to Her Mejesty or any such Foreign State for the con- veyance of public Mails.

3. The Ships of Native Princes or States in the neighbourhood of the Straits Settlements shall not be entitled to such exemption, unless the Native Prince or State shall have been recognized for the purpose by an order of the Governor in Council.

4. No passengers under this Ordinance shall be landed at, or be landed at shipped from, any place in the Colony other than the three Ports as defined in the Harbours Ordinance, 1872, or such other places as may be prescribed from time to time by the Governor in Council.

only.

Boats in tow.

Harbour-

Master may board and examine ships. Penalty, &c.

Passenger

and at the

Ports in the Colony,

5. No open boat in tow of any ship shall be allowed to carry passengers whilst so being towed, except in case of accidents.

6. The Harbour-Master at any of the Ports may, personally or by an Officer of his department, duly authorized thereto by the Governor, enter on board any Passenger Ship and Local Passenger Ship under this Ordinance, and may examine the ship and the accommodation provided for passengers, and may inspect and count the passengers, and may order the detention of any ship in which any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any law 'in force in the Colony relating to Passenger Ships, are in- fringed, pending adjudication by law thereon; and any person hindering such Harbour-Master or Officer in the execution of the duties herein prescribed shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, and the Master or Owner, of any Ship, so ordered to be detained, feaving the Port without permission from the Harbour-Master, who is hereby authorized to refuse a Port Clearance for such ship, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

7. Passenger Ships arriving at a Port in the Colony and con- Ships between tinuing the voyage to another Port or Ports in the Colony, and Passenger Ships departing from a Port in the Colony and touch- ing at another Port or Ports of the Colony, shall be subject to the several provisions of this Ordinance, so far as the same may be applicable, during such continued voyage or during such voyage between, and when at, any of the Ports in the Colony.

Proviso.

Bonds under

1870.

Provided that no fresh Survey fee shall be payable in any case where a ship already surveyed at one Port in the Colony touches at another Port in the course of the same voyage.

8. The bonds required by the Ordinance No. 6 of 1870 to be Ordinance 6 of countersigned by the British Consular authority at the Port of Discharge in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, may be countersigned by the Consular authority of any civilized Government in amity with Her Majesty the Queen.

Space between

decks.

Female passengers.

PART II.

ACCOMMODATION OF PASSENGERS.

9. The following conditions as to the accommodation of pas- sengers, whether departing from, or arriving at, the Colony in Passenger Ships, shall be observed:-

Space required.

I. The space appropriated to the passengers between decks shall be properly ventilated, and shall contain at the least 9 superficial and 54 cubical feet of space for every adult on board; that is to say, for every passenger above twelve years of age, and for every two passengers between the ages of one and twelve years.

II. The accommodation for female passengers between decks shall be separate from that provided for male passen-

gers.

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