Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (REGISTRATION) ORDINANCE - SECT 15

Tonnage of ships registered, etc. outside Hong Kong

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 64 of 1999 s. 3

(1) The Chief Executive in Council may, where it appears to him that
legislation to the same effect as the tonnage regulations is in force in any
country, order that ships of that country shall, without being remeasured in
Hong Kong, be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their respective
certificates of registry or other national papers, in the same manner, to the
same extent, and for the same purposes as the tonnage denoted in the
certificate of registry of a ship registered under this Ordinance is deemed to
be the tonnage of that ship.

(2) An order under subsection (1) shall be subject to such conditions and
qualifications as may be specified in the order.

(3) The Chief Executive in Council may, where it appears to him that the
tonnage of a ship of any country, as measured by the rules of that country,
materially differs from its tonnage as measured under the tonnage regulations,
order that, notwithstanding any order in force under subsection (1), any of
the ships of that country may, for all or any purposes of this Ordinance, be
remeasured in accordance with the tonnage  regulations. (Enacted 1990. Amended
64 of 1999 s. 3)