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munded by

of Order

Sec. 2 2034

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penalty for

Ordinance

recoverable under the Act.

No. 1.]

THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: A.D. 1889.

or any part of the penalties recoverable under section 5 of the Act for breach of the the non-observance or non-performance of the regulations made under this Ordinance or the Act towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes emigrants who had intended or were intending to proceed in any vessel whose licence has been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided. 20. For the purposes of the special licences hereinafter mentioned, the forms of Emigration Officer's certificate and of the master's bond in the Second and Third Schedules to this Ordinance shall be substituted for the forms respectively contained in Schedules B and C annexed to the Act.

Form of Emigration Officer's certificate, and of master's bond. Second Schedule. Third Schedule.

Grant of

of 1902 special licence

to mail or first class steamer, subject to certain regulations.

Fourth

Schedule.

21. (1.) The Governor may, in his discretion, and on payment of a fee of dollars, grant a special licence for any period not exceeding twelve months, or for any number of voyages to be performed within twelve months, to any steamer which is regularly employed in the conveyance of public mails under an existing contract with the Government of the State or Colony for which such mails are carried, or to any other steamer which is approved by the Governor as a first class steamer.

(2.) Such special licence shall authorize the steamer named therein to carry a limited number of free Chinese passengers on voyages of not more than thirty days duration between ports to be specified in the licence, under and subject to the regulations contained in the Fourth Schedule to this Ordinance.

(3.) The number of passengers to be carried shall be inserted in the licence, and shall in no case exceed one passenger for every ten tons of the registered tonnage of such steamer, No. 13 of 1904 sec (21A) Que.

Power to annex special conditions to grant of licence.

Cancellation

of special licence.

Specially licensed steamer

relieved from

other regulations. Ninth Schedule.

Breach of regulation or condition.

22. The Governor may, if he thinks fit, annex any special conditions to the granting of any special licence applied for under this Ordinance, and may cause such special conditions to be specified in the licence; Provided that the same shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with the Act or with this Ordinance.

23. A special licence granted under this Ordinance may at any time be cancelled by the Governor in his discretion.

24. Every steamer to which a special licence is granted under this Ordinance shall, during the continuance of such licence, be relieved from the regulations contained in the Ninth Schedule to this Ordinance, but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to relieve such steamer from the operation of any part of the Act, except the regulations contained in the said Schedule A thereto.

25. The breach of any regulation contained in the Fourth Schedule to this Ordinance, or of any condition of a special licence, shall be deemed to be a breach of a regulation respecting Chinese passenger ships.