Otago Provincial Gazette – 1859 – No. 87

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✨ Port and Harbour Regulations



OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. III.] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1859. [No. 87.

REGULATIONS FOR THE PORTS AND HARBOURS OF OTAGO.

At the Government House at Auckland, the Twenty-eighth day of June 1859.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor,
Mr. Richmond, | Mr. Whitaker,
Mr. Tancred.

WHEREAS by the Harbour Regulations Ordinance, No. 15, of Session 2, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make all such Regulations respecting Pilots and Pilotage, Quarantine and Harbours, as in the said Ordinance provided.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations for the Ports and Harbours within the Province of Otago.

F. G. STEWARD.

Pilots and Masters of Vessels.

  1. No person shall be deemed a Pilot unless he be duly licensed by His Excellency the Governor.

  2. All persons so licensed shall be provided with a License according to the form hereto annexed.

  3. Every Pilot shall carry his License with him, and shall produce it to the Master of any Ship or Vessel on its being demanded or forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

  4. The Master of any vessel employing other than a duly licensed Pilot, if such shall have offered his services, shall forfeit double the amount of Pilotage.

  5. Pilots are not bound to conduct any Vessel to sea until the Payment of Pilotage has been satisfactorily secured.

  6. Every Pilot detained on board a Vessel longer than forty-eight hours, whether by stress of weather, quarantine, or otherwise, is to be paid eight shillings per day in addition to the regular Pilotage.

  7. Any Master who shall make a signal for a Pilot to take his vessel to sea, and shall not, within twelve hours after the arrival of the Pilot on board such vessel, proceed to sea, shall forfeit and pay a sum at the rate of One Pound per day for every day such Pilot may be detained on board such vessel in addition to the regular Pilotage, and the Pilot shall not be compellable to take such vessel to sea until such forfeiture and Pilotage shall have been satisfactorily secured. Provided that no



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🏗️ Regulations for the Ports and Harbours of Otago

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
28 June 1859
Regulations, Pilots, Pilotage, Quarantine, Harbours, Otago
  • F. G. Steward

🏗️ Pilots and Masters of Vessels

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
28 June 1859
Pilots, Licensing, Pilotage, Vessels, Harbours
  • His Excellency the Governor