Colonial Passengers Ordinance amendment (1863) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO VICESIDIO SEPTIBIO

VICTORLE REGINIE

No. 9

An Ordinance to amend the Colonial Passengers

Ordinance, 1861.' (25 Vic., No. 9.)

[Assented to 15th July, 1863.

Preamble

Legislative Council thereof :— and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the 1. That no colonial ship or vessel shall clear out at the Custom House, or shall proceed to sea with a greater number of persons on board (including the master, crew and passengers, if any, and counting two children above the age of one year and under that of fourteen, as one person) than in the proportion of one person to every two tons of the registered tonnage of such colonial ship or vessel, who can be duly accommodated under the deck to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Water Police or his assistants or other person or persons appointed BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia

Number of pas-

sengers limited

Penally by the Governor : Provided that if there be on board of any such colonial ship or vessel, at or before the time of clearance, weighing anchor or proceeding to sea, a greater number of persons than in the proportion hereinbefore mentioned, or if any passengers shall not be duly accommodated under the deck, the master of such colonial ship

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Coasting Vessels

or vessel shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each person constituting any such excess, or for each passenger not duly accommodated as aforesaid.

2. That all penalties imposed by this or by the said Ordinance of Penalty bow

1861 may be recovered in a summary way before any one or more "corned

Justice or Justices of the Peace.

3. That section five and such other portions of the said Ordinance Portions of osi-

of 1861 as are at variance with or contradictory to this Ordinance are rarepe„?af

hereby repealed, and also that all other portions of the said Ordinance

and this Ordinance shall be taken and construed together as one

Ordinance to all intents and purposes.

J. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.