SUNDAY CARGO WORKING ORDINANCE, 1929

SUNDAY CARGO WORKING ORDINANCE, 1929

No. 7 of 1929.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the restriction of
the loading, working and discharging of cargo on Sunday.

[28th June, 1929.]

1. This Ordinance rnay be cited as the Sunday Cargo
Working Ordinance, 1929.

In this Ordinance-

(a) ' Cargo ' does not include coal for the ship's bunkers,
fuel oil, water or other necessaries for the Lise of the ship, mails,
personal luggage, live stock, ice, meat, fish, milk, cream, bread,
confectionery, fruit, vegetables, flowers and other articles of a
perishable nature;

(b) ' Harbour Master ' includes any person authorized or
deputed by the Harbour Master to perform any duty vested in
or imposed upon him by this Ordinance,

(c) ' Ship ' includes every description of vessel used in
navigaiion, over 6o tons net register, propelled by machinery.

3.-(1) No person shall receive on board, load on, work on
or alongside, or discharge from, any ship any cargo on Sunday
except under and in accordance with a permit issued by the
Harbour Master under this Ordinance.

(2) If any cargo is received on board, loaded on, worked on
or alongside, or discharged from, any ship contrary to any of
the provisions of sub-section (1), the master, and the owners,
charterers (if any) and agents, of that ship shall, Without
prejudice to the criminal liability of themselves or of any other
person, be deemed jointly and severally to have incurred a debt
to the Crown, by way of forfeiture, equal to twice the amount
of the Sunday permit fee which would have been payable under
this Ordinance in respect of that ship.

The regulations, form of permit and scale of fees formerly contained in the
Schedules to this Ordinance have been transferred to the correspond-
ing volume of the Regulations of Hong Kong.

As amended by No. 4 of 1934 [6.4.34]
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.





4. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations for-

(a) providing the form of Sunday permits,

(b) imposing obligations on the applicants for and holders
of Sunday permits, and on the owners, charterers, agents and
masters of ships on or from which cargo is received, loaded,
worked or discharged on Sunday;

(c) prescribing the fees to be payable for Sunday permits;

(d) any other purpose which the Governor in Council may
consider desirable in order to restrict the receiving, loading,
working or discharging'of cargo on or from ships on Sunday;


(e) excluding any specified ship or class of ship from the
operation of this Ordinance.

5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the fee
payable in respect of any Sunday permit shall be paid withtin
seven days after the date of issue, and if it is not so paid it shall
be deen to be a debt due to the Crown jointly and severally
by the owners, charterers (if any), agents and master of the
ship in respect of which the permit was granted.

(2) The fee shall not be payable if the holder of the Stinday
permit satisfies the Harbour Master that no cargo, was received
on board, loaded or discharged on or from the ship on the
Sunday for which the permit was issued, and if the holder has
also Complied with all the provisions of this Ordinanee and of
any regulations made thereunder, so far as such provisions may
relate to the said permit.

6. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of
this Ordinance of of any regulation made thereunder shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars.

No. 8 of 1929, incorporated in No. 6 of 1887.

No. 9 of 1929, incorporated in No. 15 of 1908.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
[Originally No. 7 of 1929. No. 4 of 1934. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Prohibition of Sunday working. Regulations. Recovery of fees. Penalty.

[Originally No. 7 of 1929. No. 4 of 1934. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. Prohibition of Sunday working. Regulations. Recovery of fees. Penalty.

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