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[Subsidiary]
Prohibition as to supply of fuel, victuals and necessaries, and the repair of ships and aircraft.
In force, G.N.A. 173/50.
Discontinued by LN 43/69
Desertion from ships, etc.
(Cap. 281.)
CAP. 241] Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
(1967 Ed.
52. (1) The Governor may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient in the public interest by order prohibit any ship or aircraft to take on board any fuel, victuals or necessaries or to effect any repairs, as may be specified in such order, whilst such ship is within the harbours or territorial waters of the Colony or whilst such aircraft is in the Colony.
Any such order under this regulation may be made so as to apply either to a particular ship or aircraft or to ships or aircraft of a particular class.
(2) Any person who acts in contravention of any order under this regulation by supplying or taking on board any ship or aircraft, against which such order has been made, any such fuel, victuals or necessaries, or by effecting any such repairs whilst such ship is within the harbours or territorial waters of the Colony or whilst such aircraft is in the Colony, or, if there is any contravention of such an order in the case of a ship or aircraft, the master of the ship or the pilot of the aircraft, as the case may be, and the person having the management thereof shall all be individually guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person acting on behalf of the Governor may, in relation to any ship or aircraft, take such steps, and use such force, as may appear to that person to be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with any order made under this regulation relating to the ship or aircraft, or, where an offence against this regulation has occurred in the case of the ship or aircraft, for enabling proceedings in respect of the offence to be effectually taken.
53. (1) No person lawfully engaged to serve on board any ship to which this regulation applies shall-
(a) neglect or refuse without reasonable cause to join his ship or to proceed to sea in his ship; or
(b) desert or be absent without leave from his ship; or
(c) be absent without leave from his duty at any time.
(2) Nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to prejudice the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of section 16 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, relating to forfeiture of effects or wages for desertion or absence without leave.
(3) Where an authorized officer has reasonable cause to believe that any person has contravened any of the provisions of paragraph (1), that person may be conveyed on board his ship by or under the directions of that officer.
(4) For the purpose of paragraph (3) "authorized officer" shall be deemed to include, in addition to the persons mentioned in regulation 4, the master of the ship, any mate of the ship, the
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