1967 Ed.]
Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
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person having the management of the ship, any police officer, and the Director of Marine, the Assistant Director of Marine for the time being having control of the administration of the ports of the Colony, any Senior Marine Officer or any Marine Officer.
(5) In relation to ships to which this regulation applies, paragraphs (3) and (4) shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 15 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, in the case of a British ship and a ship belonging to a subject of a foreign country to which section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 for the time being applies, respectively.
(6) No person lawfully engaged to serve on board any ship to which this regulation applies shall-
(a) join his ship, or be whilst on board his ship, in a state of drunkenness so that the performance of his duties or the navigation of the ship is hereby impeded;
(b) continually and wilfully disobey lawful commands or continually and wilfully neglect his duty;
(c) assault the master or any mate or certified engineer of his ship; or
(d) wilfully damage his ship or embezzle or wilfully damage any of her stores or cargo.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to prejudice the provisions of paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) of subsection (1) of section 16 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, relating to forfeiture of wages for wilful damage to a ship or embezzlement of, or wilful damage to, any of her stores or cargo.
(7) The ships to which this regulation applies are-
(a) every ship belonging to Her Majesty or the Government of any British possession and every ship, whether British or foreign, chartered or requisitioned by or on behalf of Her Majesty or the Government of any British possession; and
(b) every ship in respect of which there is for the time being in force a licence granted in pursuance of an order made under regulation 54 hereof.
(8) In any proceedings for an offence against this regulation, a certificate of the competent authority that at a particular time a ship was one to which this regulation applies shall be evidence of that fact.
54. (1) Without prejudice to any navigation order, the Governor, with a view to securing that British ships are used in such manner only as may be considered expedient in the public interest may by order provide that a British ship shall not proceed
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Control of trade by sea.