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1985 Ed.]

Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund Regulations

CAP. 1001

$1-C100185A

MERCANTILE MARINE ASSISTANCE FUND REGULATIONS

(Cap. 1001, section 4(2))

[13 October 1933.]

1. The persons qualified to receive assistance from the Mercantile Marine Assistance Fund of Hong Kong shall be or shall have been officers or seamen of the Mercantile Marine or their dependants who are in the opinion of the Committee both deserving of and in need of such assistance.

2. Any qualified person desiring such assistance shall send his application, with full particulars as to his circumstances, to the Director of Marine, who, after making such inquiry, if any, as he deems necessary, shall convene a meeting of the members of the Committee in the Colony to consider the case.

3. At any such meeting 3 members shall be deemed a quorum; the decisions of the Committee shall be determined by a majority of votes and the Chairman shall have an original vote and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.

4. The grant or refusal of assistance shall be in the absolute discretion of the Committee.

5. Assistance shall be of 3 descriptions-

(a) the payment, in whole or in part, of passages from the Colony;

(b) regular assistance in the Colony;

(c) temporary assistance in the Colony.

6. Assistance may be reduced, suspended or discontinued at any time by the Committee. In no case shall it be granted to a person who has received a passage, or an assisted passage from the Colony and has returned thereto.

7. Regular assistance may be granted only to qualified persons who are Commonwealth citizens and who reside, or whose families reside in the Colony.

8. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained the Director of Marine may at any time grant temporary assistance as a charge on the Fund to an amount of or in value not exceeding $20 in respect of any one qualified applicant, on his own responsibility and without consulting the other members of the Committee, who however shall be informed thereof at their next meeting.

[Subsidiary]

24 of 1933. Schedule.

G.N. 655/36. G.N.A. 42/59.

80 of 1982.

G.N. 655/36.

80 of 1982. s. 3.