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SD 1899.]

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

[No. 10.

449

PART I.

REGISTRY.

(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony Certificate or be provided with either-

licence required by

a Certificate of Registry in conformity with the Imperial ship in waters Merchant Shipping Acts; or

a Certificate of Colonial Registry under this Part; or

a Certificate of Foreign Registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British or Colonial ship; or,

(d) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons, a licence

under section 37.

of the Colony

for holding

(2) The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a Certificate of Qualifications (Colonial Registry as hereinafter provided to any ship owned wholly by

sons of the following description:-

-Certificate of

Colonial

Registry.

(a.) any person. or body corporate qualified to be the owner of

British ship as described in section 1 of the Merchant Shipping 67 & 68 Vict. Act, 1894; and

c. 60.

(b.) any Chinese person resident within the Colony applying for

the same, provided such person is a registered lessee of Crown: Ord lands within this Colony, and that he tenders, as securities for the due performance by him of all the requirements of this section, two other Crown lessees, and that he and such lessees are severally reported by the Registrar General to be each worth five thousand dollars in this Colony, and, if such person is a member of any shop or partnership, that the seal or chop of such shop or partnership is also affixed to the security to be given by him.

Colonial

(8) When any person as aforesaid is desirous of obtaining a Certifi-. Declaration ate of Colonial Registry for any ship, he shall forward to the Colonial necessary for Secretary an application therefor, together with a declaration in writing Registry stating that the ship for which such registry is sought is intended to be ployed solely in voyages with China: Provided always that if such eclaration is false, or the Colonial ship to which it relates is not employed conformity with it, the registry thereby obtained shall ipso facto ecome null and void.

(4) A Certificate of Colonial Registry shall be issued by the Registrar Documents Shipping on production to him of the following documents

(a.) the surveyor's certificate as hereinafter provided

necessary for Colonial Registry.

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