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(3) The Director may publish any rules made under subsection (2) in such manner as he thinks fit, and shall, on payment of the appropriate charge, pro- vide a copy of the rules to any person who applics to bim in that behalf.".
11. Section 107A of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following new subsections—
"(3) A copy of the notice of appeal delivered under subsection (2) shall be served on the Director who shall be entitled to be heard as respondent at the hearing of the appeal.
(4) If, on the cancellation or suspension of any such certificate, the holder of the certificate, or any person in possession of it, fails to deliver it to the Director on being required by him to do so, be shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $4,000.":
12. The sections of the principal Ordinance specified in the amendments. first column of the Schedule are amended to the extent and in the
manner set out in second column of that Schedule,
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(1) In subsection (4) by deleting "lable to a fine of four thousand dollars" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years".
(2) Io subsection (5) by deleting "liable to a One of len thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months" and sub- stituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years".
(3) In subsection (6) by deleting "lable to a fine of two thousand dollars" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shal be liable on conviction to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for 12 months".
By deleting "liable to a fine of twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years”.
In subsection (2) by deleting "lable to a fine of two thousand dollars” and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months".
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(1) In subsection (1) by deleting "liable to a fine of one thousand dollars" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months".
(2) In subsection (2) by deleting "liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 3 months”.
(3) In subsection (5) by deleting "liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months" and sub- stituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months".
(4) By inserting, after subsection (5), the following new subsection--
"(6) Where a master or other person is convicted of an offence against subsection (5), the court may, in addition to any penalty it may impose in respect of the offence, order the offender to pay any costs incurred by the Hong Kong Government in transporting the seaman or apprentice in respect of whom the offence was committed to any place outside Hong Kong; and the amount so ordered to be paid may be recovered in the same manner as a fine.".
(1) In subsection (2) by deleting "liable to a fine of one thousand dollars" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction lo a fine of $10,000 and to imprison- ment for 6 months".
(2) In subsection (4) by deleting "liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months and sub- stituting “guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months".
(3) In subsection (5) by deleting "Any master of a ship who refused or unnecessarily delays to comply with such requisition shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars, and any master of a ship who makes any such statutory declaration containing any false statement shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.",
(4) By inserting, after subsection (S), the following new subsectiona
"(6) Any master of a ship who refuses to comply, or unnecessarily delays compliance, with any requirement made under subsection (5) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprison- ment for 6 months.
(7) Any master of a ship who makes a statutory declara- tion under subsection (5) containing a statement which to bis knowledge is false or misleading as to a material particulat, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be Hable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.”.