1974-HKRS28-16-22_Part05 — Page 34

Section

109.

113.

114.

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„Amendment

months" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years and to a fine of 550,000 and an additional fine of $5,000 in respect of each passenger so carried",

(1) In subsection (1) by deleting "liable to a Äng af twenty thousand dollars" and substituting "guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to im¬ prisonment for 2 years".

(2) By deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following-

"(2) Where a ship proceeds to sea in contravention of subsection (1) whilst having on board a public officer who is acting in the execution of his duty, the master and owner of the ship-

(a) in addition to any penalty to which he may be liable under subsection (1), shall each be guilty of an offence against this subsection and shall each ba liable on conviction to imprisonment for 6 months and to a fine of $20,000 and an additional fine of $1,000 for each day during the period from the date on which the ship proceeded to sea until the date on which the officer is returned to Hong Kong or, if he does not return directly to Hong Kong, would have returned if he had travelled by the quickest practicable route; and

(b) shall be jointly and severally liable to pay all expenses incidental to the taking of the officer to sea and to securing his return to Hong Kong,

and all such expouses may be recovered in the same manner as a finc."

By deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following-

"(2) Any person who obstructs the service under this Ordinance of a document on the master of a ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000.

(3) Any owner, agent or master of a ship who is party or privy to an offence against subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.”.

By deleting subsection (2) and substituting the following-

*(2) Any regulations made under this Ordinance mag prescribe offences in respect of contraventions of those regulations, and may provide for the imposition in respect of any such offence of a fine not exceeding $50,000 and of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years.”.

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 27th-day- of November, 1974.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council,