Radio naviga- tional aids.
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(2) This section applies to—
(a) sea-going ships registered in Hong Kong; and (b) other sea-going ships while they are within the
waters of the Colony.
(3) The radio regulations shall include such require- ments as appear to the Governor in Council to implement such provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 as relate to radio telegraphy and radio telephony.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of this section, the radio regulations may—
(a) prescribe the duties of radio officers and operators,
including the duty of keeping a radio log-book; (b) apply to any radio log-book required to be kept under the regulations any of the provisions of any regulations with respect to official log-books made under section 68 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970; (c) prescribe requirements for such portable radio ap- paratus as boats or life rafts may be required to carry by the rules for life-saving appliances.
(5) If any radio officer or operator contravenes any regulation made in pursuance of subsection (4)(a), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $1 000. and if the radio regulations are contravened in any other respect in relation to any ship the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5 000.
(6) If a ship to which this section applies is not provided with radio equipment or with any portable radio apparatus required to be carried by the boats or life rafts on the ship or with radio officers or operators in conformity with the radio regulations the ship, if in the Colony, may be detained.
(7) For the purposes of this section and without prejudice to the generality of the powers contained herein, the radio rules made from time to time under the Merchant Shipping Acts shall, unless varied by or repugnant to the radio regulations, be deemed to be the radio regulations made under this section.
38C. (1) The Governor in Council may make regula- tions-
(a) requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with such radio navigational aids. other than direction finders, as may be specified in the regulations and prescribing requirements which such navigational aids are to comply with;
(b) prescribing requirements which radio navigational aids, other than direction finders and other than such as are provided in pursuance of regulations made under paragraph (a) are to comply with when carried in ships to which this section applies; (c) prescribing requirements which apparatus designed for the purpose of transmitting or reflecting signals to or from radio navigational aids is to comply