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Licence may be withdrawn or suspended.
Owners employing unregistered persons.
Certificate of fitness of cargo boat required.
Examination of cargo boats.
Boats with false bottoms, &c. may be seized and condemned.
ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1860.
Registration of Boats, &c.
11. The Magistrate before whom any conviction may take place under the provisions of this Ordinance, may, if he shall think fit, either in addition to or in lieu of any fine or imprisonment hereby imposed, suspend, or altogether withdraw the licence of any offender, and transmit his licence ticket to the Registrar General, with a certificate setting forth the decision at which he has arrived; and, in case of suspension, the Registrar shall re-issue the ticket to the applicant at the expiration of the time for which the Magistrate shall have suspended the licence.
12. Every owner of a cargo boat who shall employ any unregistered person to take charge thereof, or to work therein, or who shall refuse when called upon to give information which he may possess as to names, places of abode, or other particulars relative to persons charged with the commission of offences against this Ordinance, shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
13. On and after the first day of January next, every applicant for a licence for any cargo boat shall produce, at the time of making his application, a certificate under the hand of the Harbour Master, or an Inspector appointed for that purpose, setting forth that he has examined the boat for which a licence is required, and that it is in all respects fit and proper to be employed as a cargo boat: and the Harbour Master or Inspector shall deliver to the applicant a certificate to the effect stated on payment of a fee of one dollar.
14. The Harbour Master or Inspector is hereby empowered to enter at any time on board of any licensed cargo boat, and to survey and examine the same; and in the event of his discovering that any false bottom or other fitting, alteration or addition has been made therein for the purpose of facilitating the fraudulent concealment of goods, he shall seize and detain such boat, and apprehend or cause to be apprehended the master or other person in charge thereof, and deliver him into the custody of a Police constable.
15. As soon as conveniently may be after the seizure of any boat, the Harbour Master, or Inspector, shall prefer an information before a Police Magistrate against the licensed owner, and also against the master or other person found in charge of such boat; and if the Magistrate, after hearing all the evidence which may be offered, shall be satisfied that the false bottom or other fitting, alteration, or addition complained of was used or made for the purpose of fraudulently concealing goods therein, he may adjudge that such boat shall be forfeited and sold and the proceeds thereof be paid into the Colonial Treasury; and also that the master or other person found in charge of such boat, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding six months. And the licensed owner of such boat shall, if the Magistrate be satisfied that the alteration, addition, or fitting complained of, was made or used by his order, or with his sanction or connivance, be liable to forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.
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Licence may be withdrawn or suspended.
Owners employ- ing unregistered persons.
Certificate of fit-
ness of cargo .
boat required,
Examination of cargo boats.
Boats with false bottoms, &c. may be seized and oondemned.
ORDINANCE No. 15 OF 1860.
Registration of Boats, &c.
11. The Magistrate before whom any conviction may take place under the provisions of this Ordinance, may, if he shall think fit, either in addition to or in lieu of any fine or imprisonment hereby imposed, suspend, or altogether withdraw the licence of any offender, and transmit his licence ticket to the Registrar General, with a certificate setting forth the decision at which he has arrived; and, in case of suspension, the Registrar shall re-issue the ticket to the applicant at the expiration of the time for which the Magistrate shall have suspended the licence.
12. Every owner of a cargo boat who shall employ any unregistered person to take charge thereof, or to work therein, or who shall refuse when called upon to give information which he may possess as to names, places of abode, or other particulars relative to persons charged with the commission of offences against this Ordinance, shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
13. On and after the first day of January next, every applicant for a licence for any cargo boat shall produce, at the time of making his application, a certificate under the hand of the Harbour Master, or an Inspector appointed for that purpose, setting forth that he has examined the boat for which a licence is required, and that it is in all respects fit and proper to be employed as a cargo boat: and the Harbour Master or Inspector shall deliver to the applicant a certificate to the effect stated on payment of a fee of one dollar.
14. The Harbour Master or Inspector is hereby empowered to enter at any time on board of any licensed cargo boat, and to survey and examine the same; and in the event of his discovering that any false bottom or other fitting, alteration or addition has been made therein for the purpose of facilitating the fraudulent concealment of goods, he shall seize and detain such boat, and apprehend or cause to be apprehended the master or other person in charge thereof, and deliver him into the custody of a Police constable.
15. As soon as conveniently may be after the seizure of any boat, the Harbour Master, or Inspector, shall prefer an information before a Police Magistrate against the licensed owner, and also against the master or other person found in charge of such boat; and if the Magistrate, after hearing all the evidence which may be offered, shall be satisfied that the false bottom or other fitting, alteration, or addition complained of was used or made for the purpose of fraudulently concealing goods therein, he may adjudge that such boat shall be forfeited and sold and the proceeds thereof be paid. into the the Colonial Treasury; and also that the master or other person found in charge of such boat, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding six months. And the licensed owner of such boat shall, if the Magistrate be satisfied that the alteration, addition, or fitting complained of, was made or used by his order, or with his sanction or connivance, be liable to forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.
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