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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22nd NOVEMBER, 1862.

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hending Offenders.

37. It shall be lawful for the Master or other Officer of any duly surveyed Pas- Manter of appre- senger Steamer, and for all Persons called by him to his Assistance, to detain any Per- son who has committed any Offence against any of the Provisions of the Two last preceding Sections of this Act, and whose Name and Address are unknown to such Officer, and to convey such Offender with all convenient Despatch before some Justice without any Warrant or other Authority than this Act; and such Justice shall have Juris- diction to try the Case, and shall proceed with all convenient Despatch to the hearing and determining of the Complaint against such Offender.

38. The Provisions of the 329th Section of the Principal Act shall extend to Foreign Ships when within the Limits of the United Kingdom.

Pilotage (Part V. of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.)

Provisions as to carrying dangerous Goods.

39. Whereas it is enacted by the Principal Act that every Pilotage Authority Power of Pilotage shall have Power, in manner and subject to the Conditions therein mentioned, to do the following Things; (that is to say,)

To exempt the Masters of any Ships or of any Classes of Ships from being com-

pelled to employ qualified Pilots:

Authorities to exempt from compulsory Pi- lotage.

To alter and reduce Rates of Pilotage.

mits of Pilotage Dis-

tricts.

To lower and modify the Rates and Prices or other Remuneration to be demanded and received for the Time being by Pilots licensed by such Authority: . To make Arrangements with any other Pilotage Authority for altering the Limits To arrange the II-

of their respective Districts, and for extending the Powers of such other Authority, and transferring its own Powers to such last-mentioned Authority: And whereas it is expedient that increased Facilities should be given for effecting the Objects contemplated by the said recited Enactments, and for further amending the Law concerning Pilotage, and that in so doing Means should be afforded for paying due Regard to existing Interests and to the Circumstances of particular Cases: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Board of Trade, by Provisional Order, to do the follow- Power by Provisional ing Things; that is to say,

Order,-

Jurisdiction.

(1.) Whenever any Pilotage Authority residing or having its Place of Business To transfer Pilotage

at One Port has or exercises Jurisdiction in Matters of Pilotage in any other Port, to transfer so much of the said Jurisdiction as concerns such last-mentioned Port to any Harbour Trust or other Body exercising any local Jurisdiction in Maritime Matters at the last-mentioned Port or to any Body to be constituted for the Purpose by the Provisional Order, or, in Cases where the said Pilotage Authority is not the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, to the said Trinity House; or to transfer the whole or any Part of the Jurisdiction of the said Politage Authority to a new Body Corporate or Body of Persons to be constituted for the Purpose by the Provisional Order, so as to represent the Interests of the several Ports concerned:

(2.) To make the Body Corporate or Persons to whom the said Transfer is made And to make cou-

a Pilotage Authority within the Meaning of the Principal Act, with such sequent Arrange- Powers for the Purpose as may be in the Provisional Order in that Be- half mentioned.

To determine the Limits of the District of the Pilotage Authority to

which the Transfer of Jurisdiction is made:

To sanction a Scale of Pilotage Rates to be taken by the Pilots to be li-

censed by the last-mentioned Pilotage Authority:

To deterinine to what Extent and under what Conditions

any Pilots already licensed by the former Pilotage Authority shall continue to act under the new Pilotage Authority :

To sanction Arrangements for the Apportionment of any Pilotage Funds belonging to the Pilots licensed by the former Pilotage Authority between the Pilots remaining under the Jurisdiction of that Autho- rity and the Pilots who are transferred to the Jurisdiction of the new Authority:

To provide for such Compensation or Superannuation as may be just to Officers employed by the former Pilotage Authority and not con- tinued by the new Authority:

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ments.