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be lawful for the master or other person in charge of any ship to take into custody and deliver up forthwith to a police officer any person offending against paragraph (d) of subsection (1).

(3) No vessel shall-

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(a) lie alongside any public wharf or public landing place or alongside any part of any praya wall except when engaged in taking on board or landing passengers or Cargo:

(b) without a written permit from the Director 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 specified in regulations: Provided that nothing con- tained in this paragraph shall be construed as extending to any vessel moored or at anchor alongside any private wharf with the written consent of the owner of such wharf;

(c) lic 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 vessel thereto;

(d) lie alongside any other vessel without the consent of the

master thereof;

(e) lie alongside any private wharf or landing place without

the consent of the owner thereof;

() lie alongside any private wharf or landing place between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. except with the written permission of the owner thereof,

and 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.

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(4) Where any of the provisions of this Part 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.

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(5) Upon proof before a magistrate of any contravention of any of the provisions of subsection (3) the master or other person in charge of the vessel in question shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months. If the master or the person who was in charge of the vessel in question at the time of the contravention cannot be found, or if there was no person in charge at the time of the contravention, the licensee of the vessel in question shall, upon proof before a magistrate of the fact of the contravention, be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars, whether such licensee was aware of the contra- vention or not.

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(6) Except in cases of ships of war, no cannon, gun, firearm or firework of any description shall be discharged, without the sanction of the Director, within such portions of the waters of the Colony as the Governor in Council may by regulations prescribe, Regula. from any ship, junk or boat, under a penalty not exceeding five tions,

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hundred dollars.

(7) Any person who, by any unlawful act, or by any wilful omission or neglect, endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed or being in or upon any vessel, or aids or assists therein, shall be liable to imprisonment for six months and to a fine of one thousand dollars.

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68. The Director may, by written notice, require any person Director to remove, within a reasonable time to be specified in such notice, any obstruction, whether floating, submerged or sunk, in the obstruc- waters of the Colony, caused by such person or belonging to him or in his charge or keeping. If such person fails to remove the obstruction within the specified time, the Director shall cause it to be removed, and may recover the expenses of removal from the person named in the notice. If no such person can be found, the obstruction, when removed by the Director, may be sold to defray the expense of such removal.

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70. (1) In the case of a sunken, stranded or abandoned Removal of vessel the Governor may if he thinks fit cause the vessel or any stranded or

sunken, part thereof to be raised, removed, blown up or destroyed: abandoned Provided that such power shall not be exercised unless the versela, Director shall have given twenty-four hours notice to the owner of the vessel or such other notice by advertisement or otherwise as the Governor shall deem adequate.

(2) The Director may cause any such vessel and the furniture and tackle and apparel thereof and the cargo, goods, chattels and effects thereof or any part thereof which may be raised or salved