ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
16. The said surveyor or surveyors shall, from time to time, make such returns to the Governor as he requires with respect to the build, dimensions, draught, burden, rate of sailing, room for fuel, and the nature and particulars of machinery and equipments of the steam-ship surveyed by him or them; and every owner, master, and engineer of any such ship shall, on demand, give to such surveyor or surveyors all such information and assistance within his power as he or they require for the purpose of such returns; and every such owner, master, or engineer who, on being applied to for that purpose, wilfully refuses or neglects to give such information or assistance, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Surveyors to make returns of the build and other particulars of steam ships, and owners and masters to give information for that purpose. (Ibid, sec. 321.)
6. The master of any steam-ship carrying more than twelve passengers shall, upon application to the Harbour Master for a port clearance, state the number of passengers he purposes to carry in the then projected voyage; and if such number shall be in excess of the number mentioned in the certificate, the Harbour Master may refuse a port clearance to such ship. Any master wilfully misrepresenting the number of passengers so about to be carried shall incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
Harbour Master may refuse clearances to ship carrying more passengers than allowed by certificate.
Penalty for taking more passengers than allowed and also for leaving without a port clearance.
2. Any master of any such ship who shall, after having obtained port clearance, wilfully take or receive on board such vessel any number of passengers greater than that allowed by the said port clearance, by certificate, shall, on conviction, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for every such passenger in excess of the number permitted to be carried by the said port clearance; and the master of any such ship proceeding to sea without a port clearance shall incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prohibit the conveyance of deck passengers by any steam-ship.
Governor may prohibit conveyance of deck passengers.
4. This section shall not apply to ships or vessels which come within the operation of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, or of any Ordinance made or hereafter to be made in pursuance of the provisions thereof.
This section not to apply to ships or vessels which come under the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, &c.
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ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
16. The said surveyor or surveyors shall, from time to time, make such returns to the Governor as he requires with respect to the build, dimensions, draught, burden, rate of sailing, room for fuel, and the nature and particulars of machinery and equipments of the steam-ship surveyed by him or them; and every owner, master, and engineer of any such ship shall, on demand, give to such surveyor or surveyors all such information and assistance within his power as he or they require for the purpose of such returns; and every such owner, master, or engineer who, on being applied to for that purpose, wilfully refuses or neglects to give such information or assistance, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Penalties for carrying passengers in excess of the numbers allowed by certificate, or in a certain proportion to tonnage.
6. The master of any steam-ship carrying more than twelve passengers shall, upon application to the Harbour Master for a port clearance, state the number of passengers he purposes to carry in the then projected voyage; and if such number shall be in excess of the number mentioned clearance to such ship. Any master wilfully misrepresenting the number of passengers so about to be carried shall incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
such
in the certificate, the Harbour Master may refuse a port
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Surveyors to make returns of the build and other particulars of steam ships, and owners and masters to give information for that purpose. (Ibid, sec. 321.]
Harbour
Master may refuse clear- ances to ship carrying more passengers than allowed by certificate.
Penalty for taking more passengers than allowed
and also for leaving with- out a port Maclearance.
2. Any master of any such ship who shall, after having obtained port clearance, wilfully take or receive on board such vessel any number of passengers greater than that allowed by the said port clearance, by certificate, shall, on conviction, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for every such passenger in excess of the number permitted to be carried by the said port clearance; and the master of any such ship proceeding to sea without a port clearance shall incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars. 3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prohibit the conveyance of deck
passengers by any stea
4. This section shall not apply to ships or vessels which come within the operation of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, or of any Ordinance made or hereafter to be made in pursuance of the provisions thereof.
Governor may prohibit conveyance of deck
passengers.
This section not to apply to ships or vessels which come under the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, &c.
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