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a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for

6 months.

Offence of wilfully endangering safety.

23E. (1) A person commits an

offence if he wilfully does or omits to

do anything in relation to the railway

and the safety of any person travelling

or being upon the railway is thereby

endangered, or likely to be endangered.

(2) A person who commits an

offence under subsection (1) is liable to

a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for

6 months.".

Amendment of

section 24.

6.

amended

Section 24 of the principal Ordinance is

(a) by being renumbered as subsection (1);

(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the

following subsection

*(2) Regulations made under

subsection (1) may, in relation to the

investigation of accidents -