1498 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 .
Merchant Shipping.
reasonable means to ensure her being sent to sea in a seaworthy state,
or that her going to sea in such unseaworthy state was, under the
circumstances, reasonable and justifiable, and for the purpose of giving
such proof, he may give evidence in the same manner as any other witness .
2. Every master of a British or Colonial ship who knowingly takes
the same to sea in such unseaworthy state that the life of any person is
likely to be thereby endangered , shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless
he proves that her going to sea in such unseaworthy state was , under the
circumstances, reasonable and justifiable, and for the purpose of giving
such proof, he may give evidence in the same manner as any other
witness .
3. A prosecution under this section shall not be instituted except
with the consent of the Governor .
4. A misdemeanor under this section shall not be punishable upon
summary conviction.
Dangerous goods.
Restrictions
12. If any person sends or attempts to send by, or not being master
on carriage of
dangerous or owner of the vessel , carries or attempts to carry in any vessel, British
goods.
M.S.A. 1873, or foreign , any dangerous goods , that is to say : -aquafortis , vitriol ,
sec. 23. ]
[See also Or naphtha, benzine, gunpowder, lucifer matches , nitro-glycerine, petroleum,
dinances Nos,
8 of 1873 & or any other goods of a dangerous nature, without distinctly marking
19 of 1890. ]
their nature on the outside of the package containing the saine, and
giving written notice of the nature of such goods and of the name and
address of the sender or carrier thereof to the master or owner of the
vessel at or before the time of sending the same to be shipped, or taking
the same on board the vessel, he shall, for every such offence, incur a
penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars : Provided that if such person
show that he was merely an agent in the shipment of any such goods as
aforesaid, and was not aware and did not suspect and had no reason to
suspect that the goods shipped by him were of a dangerous nature, the
penalty which he incurs shall not exceed fifty dollars .
Penalty for 2. If any person knowingly sends, or attempts to send by, or carries ,
misdescrip
tion of dan or attempts to carry in any vessel, British or foreign, any dangerous ,
gerous goods.
[Ibid , sec. goods, or goods of a dangerous nature, under a false description , or falsely
24. ]
describes the sender or carrier thereof, he shall incur a penalty not
exceeding two thousand and five hundred dollars, to be recovered in a
suminary way before two Stipendiary Magistrates sitting together.