NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED ORDINANCE

NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 303.

NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED.
To authorize the making of by-laws by the North Point
Wharves, Limited.

[29th April, 1949.]

1. This Ordinance rnay be cited as the North Point
Wharves Limited Ordinance.

2. (1) In this Ordinance and any by-laws made
thereunder---
'company' means the North Point Wharves, Limited, their
successors and assigns;
'official' includes only the persons acting in the following
capacities in the employment of either the person, firm
or company for the time being acting as general
managers and/or agents, or of the company, namely
managing director, general manager, inanager, marine
superintendent, secretary, shipping manager, assistant
shipping manager, chief clerk, accoLintant, wharf
manager, assistant wharf manager, berthing master,
engineer, wharfinger, cargo superintendent, or wharf
police officer.

(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, if the Colonial
Secretary gives notice in the Gazette that any person, firm
or company is acting as the general managers or agents
of the company, such person, firm or company shall be
deemed to be so acting from the date of such notice so
appearing until revocation by the Colonial Secretary, of such
notice is published in the Gazette.

3. (1) The company shall have power, subject to the
approval of the Governor in Council, to make by-laws in
connexion with the condLict of its business at the
and godowns belonging to the company and situate at
North Point, and the maintenance of order and safety
thereon, and such by-laws may prohibit, conditionally or:
otherwise, the usage by passengers or by the public of the
godowns, buildings, wharves, roads and premises of the
Company.





(2) A copy of the by-laws so made clearly printed in
English and Chinese shall be posted in a conspicuous place
on the premises.

4. Any by-law made under section 3 may declare any
breach of any such by-law to be an offence and may
prescribe penalties therefor: Provided that no penalty so
prescribed shall exceed a fine of five hundred dollars:
Provided also that until such breaches and such penalties
are so prescribed by by-law, any person who commits a
breach of the by-laws made under section 3 shall be liable
to a fine of five hundred dollars.

5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed
to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and
Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate
or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in
this Ordinance 'and those claiming by, from or under them.

NORTH POINT WHARVES LIMITED BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 303, section 3)
(Ordinance No. 19 of 1949)
[15th July, 1949.]

1.(a) Every master or commanding officer of any vessel
berthed alongside any of the company's wharves shall shift
his berth on being requested to do so by an official of the
company.
(b)On a typhoon signal being hoisted every master or
commanding officer of any vessel berthed alongside any of
the company's wharves shall immediately raise steam or
otherwise prepare to sail and thereupon leave the wharf on
being requested to do so by an official of the company.

2. No person unless then in the employment of the company
or belonging to or having business with vessels alongside, shall enter
or be upon any of the company's premises without the licence of an
official of the company.

3. No merchandise, cargo, coal, wagon, carriage, cart, truck,
crane or other conveyance or machine shall be taken on to or removed
from any of the company's premises without the licence of an official
of the company.

4. No nuisance of any description shall be committed on or
about any of the company's premises.






5. No steamer, vessel, launch, lighter, boat, junk, sampan or
other craft of any description shall make fast to, or hold on to, or
lay alongside of or block the approaches to any of the company's
wharves without the licence of an official of the company.

6. No person shall use the boat steps of the company's wharves
for the landing or delivery of cargo and not more than two launches
shall lay alongside the boat steps at any one time.

7. No person shall smoke inside any of the company's buildings.

8. No person shall interfere, meddle with or move in any way
any of the company's cranes, trucks or other machines or appliances,
or make use of its facilities without the permission of an official
of the company.

9. All pedestrian and vehicular traffic shall enter or leave the
company's premises by the gates from time to time designated for
these purposes and shall conform with all instructions of the oflicials
of the company and traffic notices posted on the company's premises.
19 of 1949. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. 9 of 1950, schedule. Offences and penalties. Saving. By-laws-G.N.A. 150/49. Vessels to shift berth on request. Typhoon signal. Trespassers. Removal of goods, etc., from company's premises. Nuisances. Unauthorized vessels not to make fast. Boar steps. Smoking. Cranes, gear, etc. Entry and exit gates.

19 of 1949. 9 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. By-laws. 9 of 1950, schedule. Offences and penalties. Saving. By-laws-G.N.A. 150/49. Vessels to shift berth on request. Typhoon signal. Trespassers. Removal of goods, etc., from company's premises. Nuisances. Unauthorized vessels not to make fast. Boar steps. Smoking. Cranes, gear, etc. Entry and exit gates.

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