Requlakiomba af oll
Powers of
Direstod Jun tó
icecar of
books, makinam of return. entry and
obligation imposed on him by or under such enactment, licence or franchise to provide services for the transport of passengers so long as, in so doing he is acting under and in accordance with any order made or direction given to him under this section.
(6) Any order made under subsection (1) may provide that a con- travention or breach thereof shall be an offence and shall be punishable by such fine not exceeding $50,000 or by such term of imprisonment not exceeding 1 year as may be specified in the order or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(7) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any direc tion given to him under subsection (3) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year,
9. (1) The Director may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient for conserving and making the best use of supplies of oil in Hong Kong, requisition any stock of oil and may give such directions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the requisition.
(2) Where the Director requisitions say stock of oil under this section, the Director may use or deal with, or authorize the use of, or dealing with, the oil for such purpose and in such manner as he thinks expedient for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) and may bold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the oil as if he were the owner thereof and as if the oil were free from the rights of any other person.
(3) Where any stock of oil is requisitioned under this section, there shall be paid to the owner of the oil, and to any other person interested in the oil who suffers damage owing to the requisition, such compensation as may be agreed or as may, in default of agreement, be determined by arbitration to be just having regard to all the circumstances of the particular case,
(4) Any compensation payable under this section shall be paid from the general revenue of Hong Kong.
PART III
MISCELLANEOUS
10. (1) The Director may, for the purposes of this Ordinance or any order, direction or requirement made or given thereunder, by notice in writing require any perso00–
(a) to keep such books, accounts and records relating to any business
as may be specified in the notice; and
(b) to furnish, at such limes, in such mapner and in such form as may be so specified, such estimates, returns or information as may be so specified,
and if such person fails to comply with any such requirement, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) Subject to subsection (6), any authorized officer may for the purposes of this Ordinance or any order or direction made" or given thereunder-
(a) enter and search any premises –
(0) for the purpose of crabling the Director to exercise any of the powers conferred on him by this Ordinance or any order
made thereunder, or to determine whether, and if so in what manner, any of those powers ought to be exercised;
(i) for the purpose of securing compliance with any order, direction or requirement made or given under this Ordinance;
(i) for the purpose of gacertaining whether an offence under this Ordinance, or any order or direction made or given thero- under, has been or la "being committed in or on the premises;
(iv) if he suspects that there is in or on the premises, any article in respect of which an offence has been committed under this Ordinance, or any order or direction made or given there under or which is, or contains evidence of the commission of auch offence;
(v) for the purpose of verifying any information furnished to the Director; or
(yi) for the purpose of securing that the work carried on in such premises la performed in such manner as the Director con- siders best calculated to conserve and make best use of supplies of oil available for the carrying on that work;
(b) stop, board, search and detain any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, traio
or tram:
(c) require the production of
() any licence or permit;
G) any document which relates to the origin or nature of any of; or
(iii) any book, account or record required to be kept under this Ordinance or any order, direction or requirement made of given thereunder:
(d) examine and take copies of any licence, permit, book, account,
record or document referred to in paragraph (c);
(e) take, without payment, such sample of any oil as may be required by the Director for the purpose of examination and investiga- tion: or
(†) seize any article-
60 in respect of which he suspects that an offence has been committed under this Ordinance, or any order or direction made or given thereunder; or
(1) which he suspects to be, or to contain, evidence of the commission of such an offence.
3) No vessel having a tonnage execeding 250 gross tons shall be detained under subsection (2)(b) for more than 12 hours without the consent of the Director, who may, by order in writing, detain such a vessel for further periods of not more than 12 hours at a time.
(4) No aircraft shall be detained under subsection (1KB) for more than 6 hours without the consent of the Director, who may, by order in writing, detain an aircraft for further periods of not more than 6 hours at a time.
(5) Any order made by the Director under subsection (3) or (4) shall state the times from which and for which the order shall be effective.
(6) Domestic premises shall not be entered or searched by an author- ized officer except with the approval of the Director.