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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
[s.26 contd.] deliver up forthwith to any constable any person offending
against paragraph (d).
Obstruction
lying off
(2)—(a) No vessel shall lie alongside any public wharf or of wharves, public landing place or alongside any part of any praya wall except when engaged in taking on board or landing passengers or cargo.
praya at
night, etc.
Regulations Table N.
(b) No vessel shall without a written permit from the Harbour Master be moored or at anchor, between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., within a distance of less than one hundred yards from low water mark of such part of the Colony as may for the time being be declared in paragraph 2 of Table N in the Regulations to be a part of the Colony in respect of which the provisions of section 26 (2) (b) of this Ordinance shall apply: Provided that nothing contained in this sub-paragraph shall be construed as extending to any vessel moored or at
vessel moored or at anchor alongside any private wharf with the written consent of the owner of such wharf.
(c) No vessel shall lie alongside any other vessel, or any wharf or landing place, public or private, or any part of any praya wall, in such manner as to obstruct the free access of any other vessel thereto.
(d) No raft or floating logs shall be moored alongside any wharf or landing place, public or private, or any part of the praya wall, in such manner as to obstruct the free access of any vessel thereto.
(e) No vessel shall lie alongside any other vessel without the consent of the master thereof.
(f) No vessel shall lie alongside any private wharf or land- ing place without the consent of the owner thereof.
(g) No vessel shall lie alongside any private wharf or land- ing place between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. except with the written permission of the owner thereof.
(h) Where any of the provisions of this sub-section require a vessel to have a written permit or written permission such provision shall not be deemed to be complied with unless the written permit or written permission is kept on board the vessel in question during the period during which it is required.