HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY LIMITED BY-LAWS

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY LIMITED BY-LAWS

HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY
LIMITED BY-LAWS

ARRANGEMENT OF BY-LAWS

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HONG KONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN
COMPANY LIMITED BY-LAWS

(Cap. 1023, section 3)

[8 May 1964.1

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Hong Kong and Kowloon
Wharf and Godown Company Limited By-laws.

2. (1) No person shall enter or be upon any pier or premises of the
Company except with the premission of an official of the Company.

.(2) For the purposes of this by-law, the permission of an official of
the Company to enter and be upon any pier of the Company shall,
subject to any revocation under paragraph (3), be deemed to have been
given to any person who, through the entrance or way provided and
upon payment of such fee, if any, for entry as may be stipulated by the
Company for the class of persons to which he belongs, enters upon the
pier for the purpose of gaining access to any passenger terminal situate
on, or to any vessel berthed alongside, that pier.

(3) The Company, in the manner specified in paragraph (4), (5) or
(6), as the case may be, may in writing at any time, and without
assigning any reason therefor, revoke the permission deemed to have
been given under paragraph (2) in respect of any pier or premises either
in relation to a particular person or class of persons or the employees or
agents of any particular person or generally in relation to all persons.

(4) Where the aforesaid revocation relates to all persons generally
or to any class of persons, copies of the revocation shall be posted in a
conspicuous place on the Company's business premises and on the pier
or piers concerned.

(5) Where the aforesaid revocation relates to the employees or
agents of any person, a copy of the revocation shall be given or sent to
that person.

(6) Where -the aforesaid revocation relates to a particular person a
copy of the revocation shall be given or sent to that person.

(7) Any official of the Company may, for good reason
communicated to the person concemed, order any person who is upon
any pier or premises of the Company, whether such person entered or is
upon the pier or premises with the permission of an official of the
Company or not, to leave such pier or premises immediately.

(8) Any person who-

(a)enters or is upon any pier or premises of the Company in
contravention of the provisions of paragraph (1); or





(b)fails to leave any pier or premises immediately upon being
so ordered by any official of the Company pursuant to the
provisions of paragraph (7),

shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

(9) Nothing in this by-law shall apply to any person who is in
the employment of the Company.

3. (1) No courier from any hotel, tourist agency or any like
organization shall, in the course of his employment as such, enter or
be upon the passenger terminal situate on, or on any other part of,
any pier of the Company three hours before the expected arrival of
any vessel carrying passengers that is to dock alongside such pier or
at any other time while any such vessel is alongside the pier unless
such courier is wearing a uniform clearly indicating the name of the
hotel, tourist agency or other like organization that he represents.

(2) No hotel, tourist agency or any like organization shall send
more than one uniformed courier, or more than such other number
of uniformed couriers as the Company may in writing permit in any
particular case, to meet any vessel at, or to board any vessel from,
any of the Company's piers.

(3) No courier of any hotel, tourist agency or any like organiza-
tion shall, in the course of his employment as such, remain upon the
passenger terminal situate on, or other part of, any pier of the
Company if there is then present at that passenger terminal or on
any other part of the same pier any other uniformed courier of the
same hotel, tourist agency or organization, whether such other
courier entered upon the passenger terminal or other part of the pier
before or after him, except where the presence on the passenger
terminal or other part of the pier of more than one uniformed
courier from the hotel, tourist agency or organization concerned on
the occasion in question, is permitted under paragraph (2).

(4) Where the presence on 'any passenger terminal situate on,
or on any other part of, any pier of the Company of more than one
courier from any hotel, tourist agency or other like organization is
on any occasion permitted under paragraph (2), no courier of such
hotel, tourist agency or organization shall, in the course of his
employment as such, remain upon the passenger terminal or other
part of the pier concerned if he together with all other couriers in
uniform from the same hotel, tourist agency or organization then
present at the passenger terminal or on any other part of the pier,
exceed the number permitted as aforesaid.

(5) Every courier of an hotel, tourist agency or like organisa-
tion shall, on entering the Company's pier in the course of his
employment as such, have in his possession a list of all passengers
whom he is directed to meet and shall, on demand, produce such list
for examination-

(a) to any official of the Company; or





(b)to any other person who is authorized in writing by the
Company to examine such lists and who produces such
authority.

(6) No courier shall solicit the patronage of any passenger other
than a passenger shown on the list in his possession specified in
paragraph (5), and no other person shall solicit any passenger to
patronize any business whatsoever or in any manner assist the courier
of any hotel, tourist agency or any like organization in soliciting,
obtaining or attempting to obtain, the patronage of any passenger,
whether such passenger's name appears on the courier's list or not, but
nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to prohibit a courier from giving
assistance to any passenger who, not having been solicited by the
courier or any person on his behalf, approached the courier with a
request for his assistance.

(7) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

4. (1) No person shall take onto or remove or attempt to take onto
or remove from any of the Comany's piers or premises any merchandise,
cargo or any other goods of any kind whatsoever except with the
permission of an official of the Company.

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

5. (1) No lorry, car, cart or other conveyance not in the service of
the Company shall enter or leave or attempt to enter or leave any. of the
Company's piers or premises except with the permission of an official of
the Company.

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

6. (1) No person shall commit any nuisance of any description on
or about any of the Company's piers or premises.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this by-law
shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

7. (1) No steamer, vessel, launch, boat, junk, sampan or other craft
of any description whatsoever (other than craft in the service of the
Marine Police, Fire Services, Immigration, Medical
and Health ( Port Health) or Customs and Excise Department of the
Government) shall

(a)make fast to, or hold on to, or lie alongside, or block the
approaches to, any of the Company's piers or premises; or

(b)make fast broadside to the sea wall of the Company's
premises,

except with the permission of an official of the Company.

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.





8. (1) Save and except in the Company's main offices no person
shall smoke on any part of the Company's piers or premises.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this by-law
shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

9. (1) No person shall interfere or meddle with or move in any way
any of the Company's mobile equipment or trucks, or make use of its
tramlines except with the permission of an official of the Company.

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

(3) Nothing in this by-law shall apply to any person who is in the
employment of the Company.

10. (1) No person shall without permission of the General Manager
or Deputy General Manager enter upon or bring or attempt to bring any
car, carriage, vehicle, launch. lighter or other craft onto or alongside any
of the Company's piers. or alongside any vessel while such vessel is
manoeuvering in or out of berth.

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-
law shall be guilty of an offence against these by-laws.

(3) Nothing in this by-law shall apply to any person who is in the
employment of the Company.

11. Any person who is guilty of an offence against these by-laws
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of 550 for the first such
offence and to a fine of 5100 for every subsequent such offence.

12. Nothing in these by-laws shall be taken to restrict, derogate
from or otherwise interfere with any power or duty, or the exercise or
performance of any power or duty, conferred or imposed by or under
any law upon any person in the service of the Crown.
L.N. 65/64. 40 of 1985. Citation. Prohibition of entry and being upon piers and premises of Company without permission. Control of couriers and prohibition of soliciting patronage by others. Removal, etc. of merchandise, cargo and goods without permission prohibited. Prohibition of lorries entering or leaving premises without permission. Nuisances prohibited. Prohibition of craft making fast, etc. to pier or premises without permission. 40 of 1985, s. 10. Smoking prohibited. Prohibition of interference, etc. with equipment, etc. without permission. Prohibition of bringing cars, etc. onto pier or alongside manoeuvering vessel, without permission. Penalties. Saving.

L.N. 65/64. 40 of 1985. Citation. Prohibition of entry and being upon piers and premises of Company without permission. Control of couriers and prohibition of soliciting patronage by others. Removal, etc. of merchandise, cargo and goods without permission prohibited. Prohibition of lorries entering or leaving premises without permission. Nuisances prohibited. Prohibition of craft making fast, etc. to pier or premises without permission. 40 of 1985, s. 10. Smoking prohibited. Prohibition of interference, etc. with equipment, etc. without permission. Prohibition of bringing cars, etc. onto pier or alongside manoeuvering vessel, without permission. Penalties. Saving.

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