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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1937.
(d) he may at any reasonable time, in the presence of the master or an officer of the ship authorised in that behalf by the master, require any passenger to produce his passport and require any passenger or member of the crew to state whether he proposes to disembark at a port or place in Spanish territory and, if so, his reasons for so disembarking;
(e) he may be present at the unloading of any goods and the disembarkation of any persons at any port or place in Spanish territory or in the waters adjacent to Spanish territory;
and if the master of the ship or any other person on board the ship fails to do anything duly required of him by an observing officer under this subsection, or obstructs such an officer in the exercise of his powers under this subsection, or, being duly required by such an officer to furnish any information or make any statement, furnishes information
or
makes a statement which he knows to be false, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(7) Every ship to which the Act of 1936 applies having observing officers on board in pursuance of this Act, or being engaged on a voyage on which she has been exempted by an administrator from the provisions of subsection (1) of this section under the proviso thereto, shall, while in waters adjacent to Spanish territory, display the prescribed signals; and if in those waters any such ship, having any such officers on board or being so engaged, fails to display the prescribed signals or, having no such officers on board and not being so engaged, displays the prescribed signals, the master of the ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(S) The Board of Trade may make regulations-
(a) as to the subsistence and accommodation to be provided for observing officers on ships to which the Act of 1986 applies and as to the powers of such officers to require signals to be made and to require messages to be sent by wireless telegraphy;
(b) as to the payments to be made by the authority to the owners of such ships in respect of the subsistence provided for observing officers and in respect of tolls, dues, rates or charges of any kind incurred by such ships by reason only of their entering or using a port solely for the purpose of embarking or disembarking such officers, and as to the payments (if any) to be so made in respect of the accommodation provided for such officers and the signals and messages required to be made and sent by them;
(c) prescribing the signals to be displayed for the purpose of the last foregoing subsection;
(d) prescribing, according to the voyages on which they are for the time being engaged, the places to which, subject to the provisions of this section, such ships are to proceed for the purpose of embarking and disembarking observing officers in pursuance of this Act;
and for the purpose of any provision of this section the expression "the prescribed place," in relation to a ship engaged on any voyage, means the place specified in relation to that voyage in the regulations applicable for the purpose of that provision.
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