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respect to official log-books made under section 68 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970;

(c) prescribe requirements for such portable radio apparatus as boats or life rafts may be required to carry by the life-saving appliances regulations.

(4) If any radio officer or operator contravenes any regula- tions made in pursuance of subsection (3)(a), he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $1,000 and if the radio regulations are contravened in any other respect in relation to any ship, the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.

(5) This section applies to-

(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and

(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.

98. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations-- (a) requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with such navigational equipment as may be specified in the regulations and prescribing requirements which such navigational equipment is to comply with;

(b) prescribing requirements which navigational equipment other than such as are provided in pursuance of regula- tions made under paragraph (a), are to comply with when carried in ships to which this section applies;

(c) prescribing requirements which apparatus designed for the purpose of transmitting or reflecting signals to or from navigational equipment is to comply with if it is apparatus in Hong Kong or apparatus off the shores of Hong Kong but maintained from Hong Kong,

and the requirements prescribed under paragraph (a) or (b) may include requirements relating to the position and method of fitting the navigational equipment.

(2) If a ship to which this section applies proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea without carrying such navigational equipment as it is required to carry by regulations made under subsection (1) or carrying navigational equipment not complying with such regula- tions, the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.

(3) If any person establishes or operates any such apparatus as is mentioned in subsection (1)(c) and the apparatus does not comply with regulations made thereunder, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.

(4) This section applies to-

(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and

(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.

Navigational equipment

regulations.