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Powers of police etc. to board, Arrest and stop ship, etc.
(2) For the purpose of this section "fishing stakes" shall include any fishing station, fishing stakes and fishing stake- [29(1)
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(3) Any fishing stakes established, renewed, altered or repaired contrary to the provisions of regulations made hereunder may be removed by the Director, and the owner or occupier thereof shall in addition to any penalty be bound if so required by the Director to pay the expenses of such removal and such expenses may be recovered by the Director by summary distress upon the property of such owner or occupier and by the sale of a sufficient portion of such property to pay such expenses. [28(2)
75. (1) The Commissioner or any police officer not below the rank of sub-inspector and the Director or any officer of the Marine Department not below the rank of Assistant Marine Officer may enter at all times, with such police officers as he may think necessary, as well by night as by day, into and upon every ship, boat, junk or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in the waters of the Colony, and into every part thereof, for the purpose of inspection, and of directing the conduct of any police officer who may be stationed on board, and of inspecting and observing the conduct of all other persons who may be employed on board, in or about lading or unlading, as the case may be, and for the purpose of taking all such measures as may be necessary for providing against fire or other accidents and preserving peace and good order on board, and for the effectual prevention or detection of any felonies or misdemeanors.
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(a) The Commissioner or any police officer not below the rank of sergeant, having just cause to suspect that any felony or misdemeanor has been or is about to be committed in the waters of the Colony, may enter at all times, as well by night as by day, into and upon any ship, boat, junk or other vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war), and take into custody all persons suspected of being concerned in such felony or mis- demeanor, and may take charge of any property suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained.
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(3) Where, under this section, authority is given to any officer to enter upon any ship, boat, junk or other vessel, such officer may require the master or person in charge to stop such ship, boat, junk or other vessel to enable him to make such entry. Any master or person in charge who refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with such requirement shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.
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(4) Where any ship, boat, junk or other vessel has been [f, 30 &
40 Vict. lawfully required to stop under subsection (3) by a police 2. 86. officer in charge of a police launch flying the customary flag, or a. 181-1 exhibiting a recognition signal authorized by the Commissioner of Police, and such ship, boat, junk or other vessel refuses to stop, it shall be lawful for such officer after causing a gun to be fired as a signal, to fire at or into such ship, boat, junk or other vessel, and such officer and every person acting in his aid or by his direction shall be and is hereby indemnified and discharged from any indictment, penalty, action or other proceeding for so doing: Provided that the Governor in Council may, in any case in which he considers that compensation should be made, order that compensation be paid out of the public revenue of the Colony for injury to person or property caused as a result of such firing.
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PART X.
LIGHTHOUSES, Buoys and Beacons.
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76. In this Part "buoy" and "beacon" include all other Interpreta- marks and signs of the sea, and "lighthouse" includes lightships e. pr. and all floating and other lights exhibited for the guidance of Act, ships.
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to erect
77. (1) The Governor may erect and maintain such light- Power houses, buoys or beacons for the guidance of ships, and lay, erect light- and maintain such cables, wires and other necessary apparatus houses, for the purpose of telegraphic or other communication in con- nexion therewith or for such other purpose as the Governor in Council may think necessary.
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(2) The Governor with the assent of the Legislative Council may raise by way of public loan on the security of the general revenue such sums of thoney as may be necessary for the pur- poses aforesaid and every loan so raised shall be a charge upon the said revenues.
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(3) The Governor in the meanwhile with such assent as aforesaid may order the payment by way of temporary advance out of the Treasury of such sums of money arising from the general revenues as may be required for the purposes aforesaid: Provided always that all sums of money so advanced shall be repaid into the Treasury out of the sums which may be raised by way of loan onder the provisions hereinbefore contained.
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etc.