ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
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, or repeal the said table marked A, or to make a new table in lieu thereof. Every such new table and every alteration, 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 purposes as if such new or amended table had been originally inserted, instead of table A in the schedule to this Ordinance.
(b.) No such ship carrying more than twelve passengers shall proceed 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 not less than two approved life buoys;— 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 fourth section of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855."
2. In any of the following cases, that is to say—
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(a.) If any ship hereinbefore required to be provided with boats, rafts or life buoys proceeds to sea without being provided 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
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
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, or repeal the said table marked A, or to make a new table in lieu thereof. Every such new table and every alteration, 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 purposes as if such new or amended table had been originally inserted, instead of table A in the schedule to
this Ordinance.
(b.) No such ship carrying more than twelve passengers shall proceed 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 herein before 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 not less than two approved life buoys;-
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 fourth section of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855."
2. In any
of the following cases, that is to say-
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Penalties on
masters and owners, &c., neglecting to
boats and life buoys. [M. S. A.,
(a.) If
any ship herein before required to be provided with boats, rafts or life buoys proceeds to sea without being provide so provided 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
1854, sec.
293
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