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CAP. 313 Shipping and Port Control Regulations
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(4) If without reasonable excuse a master fails to comply with any direction given to him under regulation 12 or any permission granted under regulation 13 he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.
Traffic separation schemes.
57/90/57
Second Schedule.
Lu 30/70
Second Schedule.
Navigation in Victoria port.
LN 134 of 1988
Speed of vessels.
Fourth Schedule.
Fourth Schedule.
PART III
NAVIGATION AND CONTROL OF VESSELS
17. (1) Notwithstanding any rule relating to traffic separation schemes in the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, all vessels using a traffic separation scheme in the waters of Hong Kong shall comply with the rules of the traffic separation schemes contained in Part I of the Second Schedule.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), traffic separation schemes shall be the traffic separation schemes contained in Part II of the Second Schedule.
(3) If without reasonable excuse this regulation is contravened, the master of the vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
18. (1) Notwithstanding any rule relating to right of way in the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, a vessel which is proceeding along, as opposed to crossing, any principal fairway shall have right of way over a vessel which is proceeding across such fairway, and a vessel which is proceeding across a principal fairway shall give way to a vessel proceeding along a principal fairway.
(2) If without reasonable excuse this regulation is contravened, the master of the vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
19. (1) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), no hydrofoil boat shall, when underway in the waters of Hong Kong between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise, proceed at a speed exceeding the maximum speed to which a hydrofoil boat is subject in accordance with the Fourth Schedule, except with the permission in writing from the Director.
(2) Every vessel underway in any port shall proceed with caution and, unless the Director otherwise permits, at a speed not exceeding the maximum speed to which the vessel is subject in accordance with the Fourth Schedule.
(3) If without reasonable excuse this regulation is contravened, the master of the vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
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