1971 Ed.]
Suppression of Piracy Regulations.
[CAP. 200
SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY REGULATIONS.
(Cap. 200, section 18)*.
[16th March, 1928.]
1. These regulations may be cited as the Suppression of Piracy Regulations.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "passenger" means any person carried in a vessel, other than the owner, charterer and licensee, their families, agents, servants and workmen, and the master, pilot, officers, staff and crew; "ship" includes any description of vessel used in navigation in the propulsion of which use is made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails, also any description of junk or craft, howsoever propelled or moved, used or intended to be used for carrying any passenger; and
“vessel" includes any ship or boat, and any other description of craft used in navigation.
3. The Commissioner of Police shall have power to search any vessel, and after search to make further searches, and to detain any vessel for such purpose, and he may delegate his powers under this regulation.
4. Every vessel in the waters of the Colony shall stop when hailed by the police.
5. The owners, agents, charterers and licensees shall notify the Commissioner of Police confidentially beforehand on any occasion when it is expected that treasure will be carried on a ship from or through the waters of the Colony.
6. While any ship is lying alongside a wharf in the harbour of Victoria, no person, except persons concerned in the loading or unloading of the cargo of the ship, shall be permitted to come on board the ship on the side of the ship away from the wharf, and no person whatsoever shall be permitted to bring or put on board anything, except cargo, on the side of the ship away from the wharf.
7. When the master of any ship propelled by any mechanical means other than oars and sails in the waters of the Colony has any cause whatever to believe that any vessel may be in need of assistance in respect of a piratical attack, it shall be his duty, as
* These regulations were made under the repealed Suppression of Piracy Ordinance (Cap. 218, 1964 Ed.) and, by virtue of section 36(1) of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, continue to have the like effect as if they had been made under the Crimes Ordinance (enacted in 1971 and Cap. 200 in this edition),
[Subsidiary]
G.N.134/28
G.N.A.93/51.