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Recovery of penalties and expenses.
Forgery.
Fees payable under this Ordinance and under [M. S. A. 1854.]
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879.
Merchant Shipping.
12. Upon the publication of any such orders, rules or regulations in the Gazette, they shall, after the date of such publication, or any later date mentioned in such orders, rules, or regulations, take effect as if they were enacted by the Legislature of this Colony.
13. There may be paid out of the Colonial revenue to any officer or person appointed under this Ordinance, or to any member of a marine board, examination board, Court of survey or to any assessor, such remuneration (if any) as this Ordinance directs, or, in so far as this Ordinance does not extend, as the Governor from time to time directs.
14. There may be paid out of Colonial revenue all costs and compensation payable by the Governor in pursuance of this Ordinance.
15. All offences against this Ordinance, or any regulations made thereunder, except when otherwise provided, may be heard and determined by any Stipendiary Magistrate; and all penalties imposed by and expenses recoverable under this Ordinance, or any regulation made thereunder, except when otherwise provided, may be recovered in a summary way before any Stipendiary Magistrate.
16. Whosoever, with intent to defraud, shall forge, or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any certificate, ticket, document, matter, or thing named in this Ordinance, or any regulation made thereunder, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Supreme Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years, and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Fees.
48. The fees specified in tables marked B, C, D, and F of the schedule hereto are hereby declared to be payable to the collector appointed by the Governor as the lawful fees for the discharge of the respective duties therein specified, and the same and all other fees payable under this Ordinance, or any regulation made thereunder, may be recovered in a summary manner before any Stipendiary Magistrate.