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Surrender of local certificates of competency.
Regulations.
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) the Director may cancel, or suspend for any period, the local certificate of competency in respect of which the offence is committed.
(Amended, 36 of 1986, s. 5)
32. If, on the cancellation or suspension of a local certificate of competency under section 30 or 31, the holder of the certificate, or any person in possession of it, without reasonable excuse fails to deliver it to the Director on being required by him to do so, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(Amended, 36 of 1986, s. 6)
33. (1) Without prejudice to the power to make regulations under section 80, and without prejudice to the application of regulations made under that section (except so far as they are inconsistent with regulations made under this section), the Governor in Council may make regulations in respect of vessels to which this Part applies for all or any of the following matters-
(a) the regulation, control and use of vessels;
(b) the licensing of vessels and the renewal of licences, and in the case of vessels that have, contrary to the regulations made under this section, not been licensed for any period, for the payment of licence fees or penalty in respect of the period during which the vessels were not licensed;
(c) the cancellation or suspension of licences;
(ca) empowering an authorized officer to seize and remove or cause to be removed from any place or premises or from any part of the waters of Hong Kong and to detain vessels, without notice to the owners thereof, which he has reason to believe are not licensed in accordance with regulations made under this section, together with any things on board and any trailer or other device whereby such vessels are transported; (Added, 46 of 1981, s. 8)
(cb) the disposal by way of sale or otherwise of unclaimed vessels or things which have been seized, removed and detained pursuant to regulations made under this section and the payment of the proceeds, if any, of any such disposal into the general revenue of Hong Kong; (Added, 46 of 1981, s. 8)
(d) the design and construction of vessels, the equipment required to be carried on board vessels and matters incidental thereto;
(e) the accommodation for passengers and crew, and means for their safety and escape;