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and other documents and services relat- ing to launches or motor boats;
(e) the duties of the owners, masters and engineers of launches and motor boats; and
(d) the carrying out of the provisions of this
section.
(3.) Every person who does or is a party to any Offences and act forbidden by this section or by any regulation penalty. made thereunder, and every person who omits to do anything which he is required to do by this section or by any regulation made thereunder, and every licensee who commits a breach of any con- dition of his licence, shall, where no other penalty is provided, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
excessive
(4.) If any unlicensed launch or motor boat carries Launch or more persons than it would be entitled to carry motor boat under the regulations made under this section, hay- carrying an ing regard to the size of the launch or motor boat, number of the amount of space available, and the part or parts persons. of the waters of the Colony in which the launch or motor boat has carried such persons, or if any licensed launch or motor boat carries more pas- sengers than it is entitled to carry under the conditions of its licence, the owner and master shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
launch.
(5.) If any person places ou the safety valve of any Safety valve licensed launch any greater pressure than is allowed of licensed under the conditions of the licence he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
launch.
(6.) If any person places on the safety valve of Safety valve any unlicensed launch any greater pressure than of unlicensed would have been lawful if the launch had been surveyed immediately before the occurrence of the alleged offence and had been licensed under this section, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(7.) If the owner or master of, any launch or Unseaworthi- motor boat permits such launch or motor boat to ness. ply while in an unseaworthy or unsafe condition
by reason of overloading or from any other cause
he shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding three months.
(8.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or Inspection. the Government Marine Surveyor or any person authorised thereto by the Harbour Master or the Government Marine Surveyor to go on board any launch or motor boat at any time for the purpose of inspecting it, and no person shall obstruct any such inspection.
(9.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to Cancellation cancel, or to suspend for any period, any launch or or suspension motor boat licence if the Government Marine Sur- of licence
by Harbour veyor reports to him that from any cause the launch Master. is unfit for the service for which it is intended, or if at any time he ceases to approve of the sureties to any bond given under the provisions of any regula- tion made under this section, or if from any other cause any such bond is or becomes invalid or ceases to be in force.
any
(10.) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, for any cause which he may think fit, to cancel launch or motor boat licence or to suspend it for any period.
Cancellation or suspension of licence by Governor in
Council.
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