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Governor
may cancel certificate
and require fresh declarations
Certificate to be placed in conspicuous part of ship.
Surveyors to make returns of build and other
particulars of steamship, and owner, etc., to give information for that purpose.
Punishment
for false declaration.
Report to Harbour
Master of
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as he directs, and any owner, agent, or master who, without any reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars,
(19.) The Governor may revoke and cancel any such certificate in case in which he has reason to believe-
(a.) that the declarations of the sufficiency and good condition of
the hull, equipments, and machinery of the ship have been fraudulently or erroneously made; or
(b.) that such certificate has otherwise been issued upon false or
erroneous information; or
(c.) that, since the making of such declarations, the hull, equipments, or machinery of the ship has or have sustained any injury
or is or are otherwise insufficient;
and in every such case the Governor may, if he thinks fit, require the owner to have the hull, equipments, or machinery of the ship again surveyed, and to transmit a further declaration or declarations of the sufficiency and good condition thereof, before re-issuing any certificate or granting a fresh one in lieu thereof.
(20.) The owner, agent, or master of every such ship shall forthwith, on the transmission of any such certificate as aforesaid to him or his agent, cause one of the duplicates thereof so transmitted to be put up in some conspicuous part of the ship, so as to be visible to all persons on board the same, and shall cause it to be continued so put up so long as such certificate remains in force and such ship is in use; and in default, such owner, agent, or master shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
(21.) The said surveyor or surveyors shall from time to time make such returns to the Governor as he may require with respect to the build, dimensions, draught, burden, rate of sailing, room for fuel, and the nature and particulars of machinery and equipments of every ship surveyed by him or them; and every owner, master, and engineer of any such ship shall, on demand, give to such surveyor or surveyors all such information and assistance within his power as he or they may require for the purpose of such returns; and every such owner, master, or engineer who, on being applied to for that purpose, wilfully refuses or neglects to give such information or assistance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(22.) If any person knowingly and wilfully makes, or assists in making, or procures to be made a false or fraudulent declaration of survey or passenger ship's certificate, he shall, in respect of each offence, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(23.) When any passenger ship has sustained or caused any accident occasioning loss of life or has received any material damage affecting
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