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LEEWARD ISLANDS.
VIRGIN ISLANDS.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS.
1955, No. 9..

Tae Harsours anp Wuarves Rreurations, 1955, DATED
Jury 28, 1955, MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN CoUNCIL
UNDER SkCTION 21 or THE HarBours anD WHARVES

Orpinancr, 1954 (No. 13/1954.)

 

1. Snorr Tittz. These Regulations may be cited
as the Harbours and Wharves Regulations, 1955. .

2. INTERPRETATION. In these Regulations “ship”
includes every description of vessel used in navigation not
propelled by oars.

8. Vessecs AncHormnc. Every vessel coming to
anchor in any harbour shall take a clear berth in such
manner that such vessel when at anchor shall be and swing
clear of all other vessels and their cables and moorings.

4. Directions as To Ancaoracr. (1) The harbour
master, if he thinks it proper and necessary for the safety
of shipping and convenience of the public, may order the
master of anv vessel arriving in a harbour to come to
anchor at any particular place in the harbour pointed out
by the harbour master, and may order the master of any
vessel which has already come to anchor within the harbour ©
to remove such vessel from the place where she is anchored
to some other place pointed out by the harbour master.

(2) The harbour master may from time to time give
directions that vessels generally or vessels of a particular
type arriving in a harhour and before being boarded and
coming to an anchorage shall bring to or anchor temporarily
at a particular place in the harbour to be designated by the
harbour master until due entry is made, whereafter such

-vessels shall proceed to their proper anchorage or moorin.

in the harbour. .

_ (3) The harbour master may order the removal to.
some other berth of any vessel lying in or obstructing the

_ fairway or which.is so placed or anchored in a harbour as

in his jadgment to obstruct the convenient approach to any