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(4) The owner of a vessel may be required to pay the additional licence fees payable under subsection (3) in respect of a period prior to the issue or renewal of a licence whether or not he was the owner of the vessel during that entire period.
(5) The additional licence fees under subsection (3) shall not be payable in respect of
(a) any continuous period exceeding 6 months during which the vessel has not been in use if the owner of the vessel produces evidence to that effect to the satisfaction of the Director; or
(6) any period during which the licence of the vessel was terminated
by notice to the Director.
27. (1) No unlicensed vessel shall carry any passenger,
(2) No licensed vessel shall carry any passenger unless the conditions of its licence permit the carriage of passengers,
(3) No licensed vessel shall carry more passengers and crew than may lawfully be carried under the conditions of its licence.
(4) If without reasonable excuse subsection (1) or (2) is contravened. the owner or his agent and the master commit au offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, and lo no additional fine of $5,000 in respect of each passenger carried on the vessel in contravention of the subsection.
(5) If without reasonable excuse subsection (3) is contravened. The owner or his agent and the master commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for one year, and to an additional Sne of $2,000 in respect of each person carried in excess of the number that may lawfully be carried.
18 (1) Any person who places on any safety valve of a vessel a pressure greater than that allowed under the conditions of its licence, or would have been allowed if the vessel had been licensed, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any owner or master of a vessel who permits the vessel to operate while in an unseaworthy or unsafe condition, whether by reason of overlanding or from any other cause whatsoever, commits on offence and is liable to a fine of $30,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years,
(3) Without prejudice to any other penalty, the owner or master_who commits a breach of any condition of the licence commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment Ear & months.
29. (1) The Director shall cause examinations to be conducted for the grani of certificates of competency required to be held by persons employed as masters or deck or engineering crew on vessels, and shall appoint examiners for that purpose.
(2) The Director may make rules prescribing or providing for... (a) the standards of compelency to be attained and other conditions to be satisfied (subject to any exceptions allowed by or under the rules) by candidates for any examination conducted under subsection (1)
(b) the procedure for and the method of conducting any such
examination;
(c) the subjects to be taken at any such examination, or the manDer
in which those subjects are to be specified;
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(2) fees and forms in relation to any such examination;
(e) the issue of certificates of competency to successful candidates at any such examination and the issue of copies of such certificates. (3) The Director may publish any rules made under subsection (2) in such manner as he thinks fit, and shall, on payment of such charge as the Director may determine, provide a copy of the rules to any person,
(4) The Director may grant a certificate of competency as a master or deck or engineering crew to a person without requiring him to undergo the appropriate examination prescribed in the rules made under sub- section (2) if the person produces to the Director suitable documentary evidence of competence for the grant of such a certificate of competency.
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30. (1) The Director may cancel, or suspend for any period, any Cancelladog certificate of competency, if it is proved to his satisfaction after due apoio inquiry that the holder of the certificate has been guilty of incompetence, of competency misconduct or negligence in the performance of his duties.
(2) A person aggrieved by a decision of the Director under sub- section (1) may, within 14 days after being informed of the decision, by notice in writing delivered to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, appeal ta quch judge, "District Judge, or magistrate as the Chief Justice may nominate, and on hearing the appeal the judge, District Judge, or magis- trate may make such order confirming, varying, or setting aside the deci- sion of the Director as he considers just.
(3) A copy of the notice of appeal delivered under subsection (2) shall be served on the Director who shall be catitled to be heard as respondent at the hearing of the appeal.
31 (1) Any person who-
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(a) makes, assists in making or procures to be made any false cares af
representation for the purpose of procuring, either for himself or competency, for any other person, à certificate of competency;
(6) fraudulently uses a certificate of competency or copy of a certificate of competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled or suspcoded or to which he is not entitled; or
(c) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency or allows it to be
used by any other person,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment For & months,
(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) the Director may cancel, or suspend for any period, the certificats of competency in respect of which the offence is committed,
32. I, on the cancellation or suspension of a certificate of com- Surrender of pelency under section 30 or 31, the holder of the certificate, or any person cenfics of in possession of it, without reasonable excuse fails to deliver it to the compruebay. Director on being required by him to do so, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
33. {0}) Without prejudice to the power to make regulations under Reguladan. section 80, and without prejudice to the application of regulations made under that section (except so far as they are foconsistent with regulations made under this section), the Governor in Council may make regulations in respect of vessels to which this Part applies for all or any of the following matters———
(a) the regulation, control and use of vessels;