TABLE U.
Regulations for the Licensing, Management, and
Control of Boats, &c.
GENERAL,
Sections 28,
39 and 43.
licence.
1. All boats or vessels referred to in these Regulations Obligation of must be duly licensed as therein directed. No person shall engage or let out for hire any boat or vessel unless it has been licensed according to these Regulations,
officers.
2. Every person in charge of a licensed boat or vessel Showing of must stop and show his licence when required to do so by licence to any meniber of the Police Force or by any officer of the certain Harbour Department, or by any Revenue Officer, or by the employer of such boat or vessel, each of whom is hereby empowered to board and examine such boat or vessel,
search.
3. All bouts or vessels may be stopped and searched by Power to any member of the Police Force or by any officer of stop and the Harbour Department, or by any Revenue Officer, and every person in or on board such boat or vessel shall answer truly all questions put to him by such member or officer as to the ownership of such boat or vessel, and any such answer may be given in evidence in any proceedings thereafter instituted against any person in or on board of such beat or vessel at the time when she was so searched.
4. For any breach of these Regulations the licensee or Prosecution owner or any of the crew of a licensed boat or vessel shall for breach of
Regulations, be liable to be prosecuted before a Magistrate, and, if found guilty, to be punished accordingly.
5. Any breach of these Regulations shall be punishable Penalty for with a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in breach of
Regulations. default of payment with imprisonment for three months with or without hard labour.
6. Licences shall be issued by the Harbour Master on Issue of production of a certificate from the Inspector of Junks licences by stating the particulars required by the Form hereto the Harbour annexed. Each licence shall be numbered and shall not be transferable.
Master.
7. Whenever any licence issued under these Regula- Issue of tions has been lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may duplicate be granted by the proper officer if he is satisfied of such licences. loss or destruction, upon payment of one-tenth of the original fee in no case exceeding $1.
8. The issue of a licence shall be in the discretion of Suspension
or mecl- the Harbour Master and any licence may be suspended or lation of cancelled by him, if it shall be proved to his satisfaction licences by after due enquiry that the licensee or any of the crew of the Harbour the boat or vessel has been guilty of any breach of these Master. Regulations or of misconduct in connection with the requirements thereof.
9. Licences shall state the length, breadth, depth, and measurement in piculs of the boat or vessel and shall be valid for one year only or for such less period as shall be named in the licence. For those mentioned under I, III and IV of these Regulations, licences will be issued from the 1st July and for the remainder from the 1st April. Half yearly licences may be issued at the discre- tion of the Harbour Master.
articulars and duration
of licences.
licence,
10. Every boat or vessel, for which a licence has been Painting of granted, shall carry on each bow and on the stern the number of number of the licence legibly painted to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, and branded on the hull in figures two inches in length. Such number shall be the only one permitted and shall not be concealed.
The number shall be painted by persons duly authorised in that behalf by the Harbour Master and for such fees as he shall from time to time direct.
Painting of number by authorised persons,
11. No boat or vessel shall ply for hire within 300 feet Prohibition of any Ship-of-War without the written permission of the of plying Harbour Master or of the officer in command of such near Ship-of-
War. Ship-of-War.