508
Unlicensed
fishing vessels.
General powers of Harbour
Master over junks, etc.
Discipline of harbour.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour
Master's order.
Penalty on master of junk for bringing mendicant, etc., into the Colony.
Power to board junk and demand
inspection of
documents.
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 189.
manner as a junk, and such vessel being so licensed shall, so long as said licence is in force, be considered for all purposes of this Ordinance to be a licensed junk. For any such licence the same fee shall be paid as for a junk.
(16.) Any junk or vessel employed for fishing purposes and being within the waters of the Colony shall, unless licensed as aforesaid, be subject to the provisions of this section relating to the entry and clearance of junks.
(17.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order all junks, lighters, boats, and other vessels of any description whatever to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct, or to prohibit their anchoring or securing in any particular place, or to order them to remove to another place.
(18.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give such orders to all or any junks or other vessels for the proper discipline of the harbour and for the prevention of disorder or confusion or otherwise as he may, in his discretion, think fit.
(19.) Every master of any junk or other vessel, whether licensed or not, who, when within the waters of the Colony, disobeys any lawful order which the Harbour Master may see fit to give shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(20.) Every master of a junk who--
(a.) brings into the Colony any person who, in the opinion of the Stipendiary Magistrate before whom the charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the purposes of mendicancy or any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease; or
(b.) removes any such person from one part of the Colony to another
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, unless, in the case of any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, such master can show, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate, that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.
(21.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any person deputed thereto by him, or for any officer or constable of the Police Force, at any time to stop and board any junk within the waters of the Colony and demand the production of any licence, anchorage pass, clearance, or special permit, and in case, by reason of the non-production of any of such documents or for any other reason, there is ground to believe or suspect that any provision of the law has been violated by the master of such junk, or in case the document produced appears, from the date thereof or from any other cause, to have been unlawfully obtained or to be unlawfully used, to arrest such junk and her cargo and the master of such junk, and deliver them into the custody of the Police.
508
Unlicensed
fishing vessels.
General powers of Harbour
Master over junks, etc.
Discipline of harbour.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour
Master's order.
Penalty on master of junk for bringing mendicant, ete., into the Colony.
Power to board junk and demand
inspection of
documents.
No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 189.
manner as a junk, and such vessel being so licensed shall, so long as said licence is in force, be considered for all purposes of this Ordinan to be a licensed junk. For any such licence the same fee shall be par as for a junk.
(16.) Any junk or vessel employed for fishing purposes and bein within the waters of the Colony shall, unless licensed as aforesaid, subject to the provisions of this section relating to the entry and clea ance of junks.
(17.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order all junk lighters, boats, and other vessels of any description whatever to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct, or to prohibit their anchorin or securing in any particular place, or to order them to remove to an other place.
(18.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give such orderato all or any junks or other vessels for the proper discipline of the harbou and for the prevention of disorder or confusion or otherwise as he may- in his discretion, think fit.
(19.) Every master of any junk or other vessel, whether licensed not, who, when within the waters of the Colony, disobeys any lawful order which the Harbour Master may see fit to give shall be liable to penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(20.) Every master of a junk whọ--
(a.) brings into the Colony any person who, in the opinion of the Stipendiary Magistrate before whom the charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the purposes of mendicancy or any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease or (b.) removes any such person from one part of the Colony to another shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, unless, in the case of any person suffering from any infectious or con- tagious disease, such master can show, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate, that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.
(21.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any person deputed thereto by him, or for any officer or constable of the Police Force, at any time to stop and board any junk within the waters of the Colony and demand the production of any licence, anchorage pass,clearance, or special permit, and in case, by reason of the non-production of any of such documents or for any other reason, there is ground to believe or suspect that any provision of the law has been violated by the master of such junk, or in case the document produced appears, from the date thereof or from any other cause, to have been unlawfully obtained or to be unlawfully used, to arrest such junk and her cargo and the master of such junk, and deliver them into the custody of the Police.
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