TERMS AND DEFINITIONS SEMINAL...
596
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[s. 2 contd.] neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled;
[cf. No. 6 of 1895, s. 2.]
(k) "Port of the Colony and port", where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, mean such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port;
(l) "River steamer" means any steamship regularly plying between the Colony and any place on the Canton River or the West River or any river in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai, or between the Colony and Macao;
(m) "Seaman" includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship;
(n) "Ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except junks or lorchas not propelled by steam;
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(o) "Steamer or steamship" means any vessel propelled by steam;
(p) "Tons and tonnage" mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered tonnage;
(q) "Vessel" includes any ship or boat or any other description of vessel used in navigation.
PART I.
Certificate or licence required by ship in waters of the Colony.
REGISTRY.
3.—(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with—
(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or
(b) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or
(c) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.
* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
TERASENYGANMAN ALDERATUM SEMINAL...
596
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[s. 2 contd.] neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could
have prevented or forestalled;
[cf. No. 6 of 1895, s. 2.]
(k) "Port of the Colony and port", where by the context a port out of the Colony is not indicated, mean such place in the waters of the Colony as the Governor may declare by notification to be a port;
(1) "River steamer" means any steamship regularly plying between the Colony and any place on the Canton River or the West River or any river in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai, or between the Colony and Macao;
(m) "Seaman " includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship;
(n) "Ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except junks or lorchas not propelled by steam;
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(0) Steamer ог steamship" means any vessel pro- pelled by steam;
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(Þ) Tons and tonnage mean tons and tonnage as calculated according to British measurement of registered
tonnage ;
(q) "Vessel "
includes any ship or boat or any other
description of vessel used in navigation.
PART I.
Certificate or licence required by ship in waters of
the Colony.
REGISTRY.
3.—(1) Every ship trading in or from the waters of the Colony must be provided with--
(a) a certificate of registry in conformity with the Merchant Shipping Acts; or
(b) a certificate of foreign registry or other document similar or equivalent to that required in the case of a British ship; or
(c) in the case of a steamship not exceeding sixty tons or a motor boat, a licence under section 37.
* As amended by No. 23 of 1932 [10.12.32] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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