1000
[Table D contd.] Limits for carrying
upper deck passengers.
Deck-house
to be pro-
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
3. Upper deck passengers may be carried only between ports within the following limits, namely, Hongkong, the coast of China, Formosa, French Indo-China, and the Philippine Islands.
4. Between the 1st day of June and the 14th day of October, both days inclusive, every ship which carries upper deck passengers under regulation 3 of this Table, shall, for the use of such passengers, be furnished with a deck-house or other permanent protection against the weather which will provide a space of 12 superficial feet and 72 cubic feet for each upper deck passenger carried: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to voyages between Hongkong and Swatow or Swatow and Hongkong, on which run upper deck passengers may be carried at all seasons of the year without the provision of the deck-house.
June 1 and
October 14; exception.
Restriction as to decks.
Definition of superficial
area.
Conditions
for carrying cargo, etc.,
on upper or passenger decks.
Restriction as to tiers of berths. Light and air.
First and
5. Passengers are not to be carried on more than two decks on any one voyage.
6. The superficial area of a deck shall mean the area of the deck itself exclusive of sky-lights, hatchways, and other incumbrances.
7. No part of the cargo or of the passengers' luggage or of the provisions, water, or stores, whether for the use of the passengers or of the crew, shall be carried on the upper deck or on the passenger decks, unless the same is stowed and secured to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, and is placed so as not to impede light or ventilation or to interfere with the comfort of the passengers; and any space so occupied and rendered unavailable for the accommodation of the passengers shall be deducted in calculating the passenger space.
8. There shall not be more than two tiers of berths on any one deck.
9. Such provisions for affording light and air to the passenger decks shall be supplied as the circumstances of the case may, in the judgment of the Harbour Master, require. The passengers shall have the free and unimpeded use of the whole of the hatchway situated over the space appropriated to them, and over each such hatchway there shall be erected such a booby hatch or other substantial covering as will afford it the greatest amount of light and air and of protection from wet as the case will admit.
10. The First and Second Class Saloons, if not reserved for First and Second Class passengers, may be included in the space provided for in regulations 1, 2, and 4 of this Table.
Saloons.
*
Table E.
[ss. 4 (3), 37 (2) & 43 (3).]
Launches and motor boats to be licensed,
REGULATIONS FOR LAUNCHES AND MOTOR BOATS.
1. Subject to the provisions of regulation 35 of these regulations, all launches and motor boats shall be licensed in the manner directed by these regulations, and no person shall have or use any unlicensed launch or motor boat.
*As amended by G. Ns. Nos. 35 of 1913, 460 of 1914, 141 of 1917, 381 of 1918, 362 of 1921, 447 of 1922, 171 of 1923, and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1000
[Table D contd.] Limits for carrying
upper deck passengers.
Deck-house
to be pro-
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
3. Upper deck passengers may be carried only between ports within the following limits, namely, Hongkong, the coast of China, Formosa, French Indo-China, and the Philippine Islands.
4. Between the 1st day of June and the 14th day of October, both days inclusive, every ship which carries upper deck passengers under regulation vided between 3 of this Table, shall, for the use of such passengers, be furnished with a
June 1 and
October 14; exception.
Restriction as to decks.
Definition of superficial
area.
Conditions
for carrying cargo, etc.,
on upper or passenger decks.
Restriction as to tiers of berths. Light and air.
First and
deck-house or other permanent protection against the weather which will provide a space of 12 superficial feet and 72 cubic feet for each upper deck passenger carried: Provided that this regulation shall not apply to voyages between Hongkong and Swatow or Swatow and Hongkong, on which run upper deck passengers may be carried at all seasons of the year without the provision of the deck-house.
5. Passengers are not to be carried on more than two decks on any one voyage.
6. The superficial area of a deck shall mean the area of the deck itself exclusive of sky-lights, hatchways, and other incumbrances.
7. No part of the cargo or of the passengers' luggage or of the provisions, water, or stores, whether for the use of the passengers or of the crew, shall be carried on the upper deck or on the passenger decks, unless the same is stowed and secured to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, and is placed so as not to impede light or ventilation or to interfere with the comfort of the passengers; and any space so occupied and rendered unavailable for the accomodation of the passengers shall be deducted in calculating the passenger space.
8. There shall not be more than two tiers of berths on any one deck.
9. Such provisions for affording light and air to the passenger decks shall be supplied as the circumstances of the case may, in the judgment of the Harbour Master, require. The passengers shall have the free and unimpeded use of the whole of the hatchway situated over the space appropriated to them, and over each such hatch way there shall be erected such a booby hatch or other substantial covering as will afford it the greatest amount of light and air and of protection from wet as the case will admit.
10. The First and Second Class Saloons, if not reserved for First and Second Class Second Class passengers, may be included in the space provided for in
regulations 1, 2, and 4 of this Table.
Saloons.
*
Table E.
[ss. 4 (3), 37 (2) & 43 (3).]
Launches and motor boats to be licensed,
REGULATIONS FOR LAUNCHES AND MOTOR BOATS.
1. Subject to the provisions of regulation 35 of these regulations, all launches and motor boats shall be licensed in the manner directed by these regulations, and no person shall have or use any unlicensed launch or motor boat.
*As amended by G. Ns. Nos. 35 of 1913, 460 of 1914, 141 of 1917, 381 of 1918,
362 of 1921, 447 of 1922, 171 of 1923, and Law Rov. Ord., 1924.
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