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required such clearance may, upon payment of such additional fee as may be prescribed, be endorsed for night clearance,

(2) The owner or agent of any ferry vessel in respect of which a monthly clearance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) has been granted shall make or cause to be made to the Director in the course of each week a return showing in respect of the previous week—

(a) particulars of each voyage made by the vessel;

(b) particulars of all cargo carried on each such voyage;

(c) the number of passengers carried on each such voyage, specify- ing the number of persons embarking and disembarking at cach point of call during each such voyage.

(3) If any owner or agent fails to comply with the provisions of paragraph (2)-

(a) he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary convic

tion to a fine of four thousand dollars; and

(b) the current monthly clearance granted in respect of such vessel shall be liable to cancellation at the discretion of the Director

PART VI.

ENGAGEMENT AND DISCHARGE OF CREW MEMBERS.

26. (1) The owner of any launch or ferry vessel shall cause a book, referred to in these regulations as the crow book, to be main tained on board such launch or ferry vessel in which shall be recorded in relation to each member of the crew, the following particulars-

(a) name;

(b) Identity Card number, if any is beld;

(c) age:

(d) sex;

(e) place of origin:

( date and place of birth:

(g) the number of the licence of the vessel (if any) in which the

crew member had previously served;

(A) capacity in which the crew member served in such last vessel:

( the date of discharge of the crew member from such vessel.

the date and place of engagement of the crew member for service in the vessel in respect of which the crew book is maintained:

(k) the name and the number of the licence of such vessel;

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the duration of the contract of service;

(m) the wages payable and the duration of the pay periods under

such contract;

{n} the date and the place of discharge of the crew member from

the vessel:

(o) the signature and one copy of a photograph of the crew mem-

ber; and

(p) the signature of the owner or the agent of the vessel.

(2) Whenever any member of the crew is engaged or discharged the owner or agent of the launch or ferry vessel in question shall cause such of the particulars required by paragraph (1) as are applicable to be entered in the crew book and shall not later than seven days after the dale of such engagement or discharge, as the case may be, produce the crew book to the appropriate officer of the Marine Department, either at the Marine Department or at the nearest station of the Marine Department, to the place from which such launch or ferry vessel operates, and, upon payment of the fee prescribed (if any), such officer shall counter-sign the entry.

(3) If any person is employed as a member of the crew of any launch or ferry vessel whose name is not entered in the crew book of such launch or ferry vessel as required by the provisions of paragraph (1). both the master and the owner thereof shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars and six months imprisonment; and if any crew book is not produced to the appropriate officer of the Marine Department as required by the provisions of that paragraph, the master and the owner of the vessel to which the crew book relates shall each be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

or discharge

27. (1) Whenever the master or the engineer of any launch or Day of Ferry vessel is engaged or discharged, the owner of such launch or ferry owner on vessel shall, not later than forty-eight hours after such engagement or engagement discharge, register the fact with the Directer, on a form to be obtained of master from the Marine Department, and shall pay the fee (if any) prescribed or engineer. for the registration thereof.

(2) If the owner of any launch or ferry vessel fails to comply with any of the provisions of paragraph (1), he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.

28. (1) Whenever the master or engineer of any launch or ferry Duty of vessel is engaged or discharged, he shall, not later than forty-eight hours master or after such engagement or discharge, produce his local certificate of engagemenL competency for inspection by the appropriate officer at the Marine or discharge.

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