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Merchant Shipping (Safety)
[1981 Ed.
50/90512
Nautical publications.
(n) the making of records and the keeping of documents relating to ships and the keeping and use on a ship of information to facilitate the navigation of the ship;
(o) the keeping of registers and the issue of certificates in cases for which registration or a certificate is required by virtue of the regulations;
(p) the furnishing of information;
(q) the granting by the Director on such terms (if any) as he may specify, of exemptions from specified provisions of the regulations for classes of cases or individual cases;
(r) the alteration or cancellation of any such exemption;
(s) the detention of any ship and the application of section 68, with such modifications (if any) as are prescribed, in relation to the ship;
(t) the granting of approvals by the Director and the terms thereof and the cancellation of any such approval or the alteration of the terms thereof;
(u) fees; and
(v) generally carrying into effect this Ordinance.
(3) Regulations made under this section may-
(a) make different provision for different circumstances and, in particular, make provision for an individual case;
(b) be made so as to apply only in such circumstances as are prescribed by the regulations;
(c) provide that the contravention of any particular regulation shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties for any such offence not exceeding a fine of $20,000 or imprisonment for 1 year or both such fine and such imprisonment.
(4) In this section "Hong Kong ship" means a ship registered in Hong Kong.
108. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations specifying such charts, directions or information as are necessary or expedient for the safe operation of ships, and those regulations may require ships registered in Hong Kong, or such class of ships registered in Hong Kong as may be specified in the regulations, to carry, either at all times or on such voyages as may be specified in the regulations, copies of the charts, directions or information so specified.
(2) If a ship goes to sea, or attempts to go to sea without carrying copies of the charts, directions or information which it is required to carry by regulations under this section, the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.