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CAP. 313] Shipping and Port Control Regulations
[1985 Ed.
(4) The Director may seize and detain a log or other timber or object referred to in paragraph (1) if—
(a) a direction given under paragraph (1) is not complied with;
or
(b) after reasonable inquiry he is unable to ascertain the name and address of, or after reasonable attempts fails to contact, the owner or other person entitled to the possession of the log or other timber or object.
(5) For the purposes of seizing a log or other timber or object under paragraph (4), the Director may take any action that is necessary to remove, move or secure the log or other timber or object.
(6) The Director shall publish in the Gazette and in one English language and one Chinese language newspaper circulating in Hong Kong a notice of a seizure effected under paragraph (4) and the notice shall specify—
(a) the name (if known to the Director) of the person whom the Director believes to be the owner or otherwise entitled to the possession of the log or other timber or object;
(b) a description of the log or other timber or object and the place at which it was seized;
(c) a reasonable period within which and the place at which a claim shall be submitted for the release of the log or other timber or object.
(7) If a valid claim to a log or other timber or object seized under paragraph (4) is submitted at any time before a notice is published under paragraph (6) or within the period specified in a notice published under that paragraph, the Director shall, on payment to him of all expenses involved in the seizure and custody thereof, release the log or other timber or object to the claimant.
(8) If the release of a log or other timber or object is not obtained in pursuance of paragraph (7), the Director may sell, or otherwise dispose of in such other manner as he thinks fit, the log or other timber or object, as the case may be, and in the case of sale the proceeds, after deducting all expenses payable under paragraph (7) and any reasonable expense incurred in the sale, shall be paid to the person making a valid claim thereto within 6 months after the date of sale or forfeited to the Crown if not claimed within that period.
Signal stations.
Tenth Schedule.
PART VIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
61. The signal stations specified in Part I of the Tenth Schedule shall be the signal stations for the purposes of conveying directions to vessels in the waters of Hong Kong and for the other purposes of the Ordinance.