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ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 . 1483


Merchant Shipping.


reduced or varied and the rafts or other appliances so
substituted be sufficient for the persons carried on board
the ship : Provided also that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council, from time to time, or at any time

hereafter, to alter, amend, or repeal the said table marked
A, or to make a new table in lieu thereof. Every such
new table and every alteration, amendment, or repeal of
the said table A shall be published in the Gazette, and
after such publication , shall be as valid to all intents
and purposes as if such new or amended table had been
originally inserted , instead of table A in the schedule to
this Ordinance .

(b. ) No such ship carrying more than twelve passengers shall

proceed to sea from any place in the Colony , unless , in
addition to the boats hereinbefore required , she is also

provided with a life boat furnished with all requisites
for use, or unless one of her boats hereinbefore required
is rendered buoyant after the manner of a life boat.

(c. ) No such ship as last aforesaid shall proceed to sea, unless
she is also provided with not less than two approved
life buoys ;

And such boats and life buoys shall be kept so as to be at all times fit
and ready for use : Provided, that the enactments with respect to boats
and life buoys herein contained shall not apply in any case in which a
certificate has been duly obtained under the fourth section of " The
Chinese Passengers Act, 1855. "

2. In any of the following cases, that is to say : Penalties on
masters and
(a . ) If any ship hereinbefore required to be provided with owners, &c..
boats, rafts or life buoys proceeds to sea without being lecting to
boats and
so provided therewith, or if any such boats, rafts , life life buoys.
[ M. S.
buoys, or other appliances for saving life are lost or 1854, sec.
rendered unfit for service in the course of the Voyage 293. ]

through the wilful fault or negligence of the owner or
master ; or,

(b. ) If in case of any of such boats, rafts, life buoys , or other
appliances for saving life being accidentally lost or