New Zealand Gazette – 1862 – No. 37

Page 309

✨ Harbour Regulations Otago



Numb. 37.

309

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1862.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
THE 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER, 1862.
Present,-
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by the Marine Board Act,
1862, it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from
time to time to make Regulations relating
to the safe and commodious navigation of any
Port, Harbour, or River, and the order and
management of vessels resorting thereto.
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth
hereby make the following Regulations for
the Port and Harbour of Otago.
And doth declare that this Order shall
take effect from and after the 15th day of
November next.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

REGULATIONS
FOR THE
PORTS AND HARBOURS OF OTAGO.

General Rules and Regulations.

  1. The Master of every vessel shall anchor
    or moor where the Harbour Master or Pilot
    may direct, and he shall not unmoor or quit
    the anchorage until notice be given in writing
    at the Harbour Master's office; and any Master
    offending against this regulation shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding five pounds.

  2. All vessels must have buoys and buoy
    ropes to their anchors to show their position;
    and must hoist a conspicuous light at their
    peak end, and keep the same burning from
    sunset to sunrise, or forfeit a sum not exceed-
    ing ten pounds.

  3. All vessels moored or at anchor are to
    have both cables clear, and in readiness to
    slack away when required, and any Master
    offending against this regulation shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

  4. No boat shall go alongside of any vessel
    entering any Port, except those duly autho-
    rised by Government, before the vessel is
    properly secured at her anchorage, and has
    been declared free by the Immigration or other
    proper Officer, under a penalty not exceed-
    ing ten pounds.

  5. Masters of vessels arriving from Ports
    beyond the Australasian Colonies are not al-
    lowed to let their steerage passengers leave
    their vessels for the purpose of landing at
    Dunedin after twelve o'clock noon during the
    months of April, May, June, July, August,
    and September, nor after two o'clock, p.m.,
    during the remaining months, unless with the
    consent of the Immigration Officer, under a
    penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

  6. All vessels are to unshot their guns be-
    fore they anchor, and no guns or firearms,
    except in self-defence or in cases of distress,
    are to be discharged from any vessel or from
    any boat unless permission in writing has
    been obtained from the Harbour Master, and
    any person who shall offend against this re-
    gulation (including as well any sportsman
    or any other offender), shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds.

  7. All Masters or other persons in charge
    of vessels are immediately to strike their top-
    gallant yards and masts, to have their jib and
    spanker booms rigged close in, and moor or
    clear hawse, when called upon by the Harbour
    Master or other competent authority to do so,



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🏛️ Regulations for the Ports and Harbours of Otago under the Marine Board Act, 1862

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
23 October 1862
Otago, Harbour Regulations, Marine Board Act, Vessel management, Anchorage, Pilotage
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of Executive Council