SHIPPING AND PORT CONTROL (AMENDMENT) Ord. No. 2/79
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 2 of 1979
I assent.
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MURRAY MACLEHOSE,
Governor.
10th January, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance 1978.
[10th January, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Shipping and Port Control Short title. (Amendment) Ordinance 1979.
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and
2. Section 72 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years substituting the following-
"is liable-
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(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000 and to
imprisonment for 4 years; and
(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to imprison-
ment for 2 years".
Amendment of section 72. (76 of 1978.)
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 72 Addition of the following section-
"Beaching or scuttling vessel.
72A. Any person who, by any unlawful act or in any manner whatsoever without reasonable excuse, disables, abandons, scuttles or beaches any vessel within the waters of Hong Kong commits an offence and is liable
(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000
and to imprisonment for 4 years; and
(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to
imprisonment for 2 years.".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 10th day of January, 1979.
section 72A.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM, Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
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