ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
6. Where under this Ordinance a ship is authorised or ordered to be detained, if the ship after such detention or after service on the master of any notice of or order for such detention proceeds to sea before it is released by competent authority, the master of the ship, and also the owner or agent and any person who sends the ship to sea, if such owner or agent or person be party or privy to the offence, shall forfeit and pay to Her Majesty a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
7. Where a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea when on board thereof in the execution of his duty any officer authorised to detain the ship, or any surveyor or officer appointed by the Governor, the owner and master of the ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of and incidental to the officer or surveyor being so taken to sea and also a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or, if the offence is not prosecuted in a summary manner, not exceeding fifty dollars for every day until the officer or surveyor returns, or until such time as would enable him after leaving the ship to return to the port from which he is taken, and such expenses may be recovered in like manner as the penalty.
8. In addition to the powers herein before given, it shall be lawful for Governor in Council, from time to time, to make, alter and repeal regulations for the better and more effectual carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
9. In any regulations under this Ordinance, except with reference to quarantine, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to impose penalties for the breach thereof, but so nevertheless that the penalty for the breach of any such regulations do not exceed two hundred dollars or six months' imprisonment with or without hard labour.
10. Where the Governor has power to make any orders, rules, or regulations in Council it shall be lawful for him, from time to time, to make such orders, rules and regulations in Council and to revoke, alter, or add to any orders, rules or regulations so made.
11. All such orders, rules and regulations shall be published in the Gazette.
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Enforcing detention of ship.
[M. S.A. 1876, sec. 34].
General power to the Governor in Council to make regulations.
And to impose penalties.
Provisions as to rules, &c. made by Governor in Council. [M. S. A. 1876, sec. 38.
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