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Table F.
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No junk to legvo.ab night.
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No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
act mentioned in such permit. Such special permit may authorise a trading junk licensed to trade only within the waters of the Colony to leave the waters of the Colony for one voyage only. The special permits shall be in the form of entry in the junk's pass book as shown in Table T of the schedule.
(13) No vessel shall leave any port in the Colony without a clearance or permit, unless the safety of the vessel (through stress of weather) shall render it necessary, and in such case she shall return to her former anchorage or place in port when such necessity shall have ceased.
(14) No junk shall leave her anchorage or attempt to leave any port between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. from October to March inclusive, nor between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. from April to September inclusive, except in the case of a licensed fishing junk which has obtained a special permit from the Harbour Master.
Penalty for
(15) No licence, special permit, or receipt shall be used in unlawfully using licence, respect of any vessel other than the vessel therein specified, or for any purpose or for any period of time other than as therein men- tioned, and any master of a vessel who shall knowingly use or attempt to use any licence or special permit which shall not have been lawfully obtained, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 300 dollars, or imprisonment for any term not exceeding 12 months: and every vessel in respect of which a licence or special permit has been used or attempted to be used in violation of this sub-section may, either with or without the cargo thereof, and whether the mas ter bas been brought to trial or not, at the discretion of the Court. be forfeited.
Licences to other vessels.
Junks and other arpit
(16) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to grant to any vessel other than a junk a licence, in like manner and in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5), when it appears to him that such vessel is to be employed in the same or a similar manner as a junk, and such vessel shall, so long as the said licence is in force, be considered for all purposes of this Ordinance to b. a junk. For any such licence the same fee shall be paid as for a junk.
(17) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order vessels to be subject to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct, or to prohibit their anchoring or securing in any particular place, or to order them to remove to any other place.
to orders of
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MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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(18) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give such [6.20 orders to all vessels, for the proper discipline of the harbour and for Discipline of the prevention of disorder or confusion, or otherwise as he may harbour. think fit.
(19) Every master of any vessel who shall, when within the Penalty for
disobeying waters of the Colony, disobey any lawful orders of the Harbour Harbour Master, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
Master's orders.
(20) Every master of a junk who brings into the Colony Penalty for any person who, in the opinion of the Magistrate before whom the bringing
nordicants, charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the purpose of men- etc., into the
Colony. dicancy, or any person suffering from leprosy or any infectious or contagious disease, or who removes any such person from one part
of the Colony to another, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 10 dollars for each offence, unless in the case of any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, such master can show to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.
(21) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any person Power to
board any deputed thereto by him, or for any officer of police or any revenue junk and officer, at any time to stop and board any vessel within the waters demand of the Colony and demand the production of any licence or special documents.
inspection of
permit, and in case by reason of the non-production of any of such documents, or for any other reason, there shall be ground to believe or suspect that any provision of the law has been violated by the master of such vessel, or in case the document produced shall appear from the date thereof, or from any other cause, to have been unlaw- fully obtained, or to be unlawfully used, to arrest such vessel and her cargo (if any) and the master, and deliver them into the custody of the police.
be levied by
(22) Every vessel, the master of which is charged with having In case of violated the provisions of this section, may be forthwith arrested and non-payment
of penalty detained, unless bail to the satisfaction of a Magistrate is given, by master, until he shall either have been acquitted or, if found guilty, shall he may have paid the fine inflicted upon him, and in case he shall fail to sale of vessel. pay, within 10 days, any fine inflicted upon him, the same may be recovered by the sale of such vessel and the balance, if any, of the net proceeds thereof, after deducting therefrom the expenses of such sale and the amount of such fine, shall be paid to the owner of the vessel if claimed within 12 months from the date of the sale, and if not claimed within that period, shall be forfeited: Provided that in
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