C6
[Subsidiary]
Director may require information.
Closed areas.
Unlicensed vessels in prescribed or closed area.
Sale of detained vessels.
CAP. 313] Shipping and Port Control (Dwelling
Vessels) Regulations
[1987 Ed.
15. (1) The Director may, from time to time, require a licensee to inform him of the number, the names and ages, occupations and identity card numbers of all persons normally dwelling on the dwelling vessel at the time of the request.
(2) Any licensee who, having been required to give information under paragraph (1), fails to do so, or gives information which he knows or reasonably ought to know to be false in a material particular, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
16. (1) The Governor may, by order, declare any area of the waters of Hong Kong to be closed to dwelling vessels.
(2) No dwelling vessel may enter or remain, or be permitted to enter or remain, in a closed area.
17. (1) The Director may, by notice affixed to the mast or other prominent part thereof, order that a dwelling vessel in a closed area or an unlicensed dwelling vessel in a prescribed area be removed therefrom within such time, being not less than 14 days, as the Director may specify in the notice; and such notice may be directed to any specified person, or generally to all persons normally dwelling on the vessel.
(2) Any person who, having been ordered to remove a dwelling vessel under paragraph (1), fails without reasonable cause to comply with such order commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) The Director may seize, remove and detain any dwelling vessel in respect of which an order for removal has been made and not complied with, and, for the purposes of such seizure, removal and detention, may remove any person or property found thereon.
(4) The Director may take possession of any property found on a dwelling vessel seized or detained under paragraph (3) and any such property shall become the property of the Crown free from the rights of any person and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Director thinks fit.
(5) Any person who obstructs the Director in the seizure, removal and detention of any dwelling vessel or in the removal of any person or property therefrom, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
18. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) the Director may, as soon as practicable after the seizure, removal and detention of a dwelling vessel under regulation 17, sell it by public auction or tender or in such other manner as he sees fit.
(2) The Director shall give not less than 5 days' notice of the proposed sale, under paragraph (1), of any dwelling vessel by publishing notice thereof in one newspaper printed in the English language and in one printed in the Chinese language.
C6
[Subsidiary]
Director may require information.
Closed areas.
Unlicensed vessels in prescribed or closed area.
Sale of detained vessels.
CAP. 313] Shipping and Port Control (Dwelling
Vessels) Regulations
[1987 Ed.
15. (1) The Director may, from time to time, require a licensee to inform him of the number, the names and ages, occupa- tions and identity card numbers of all persons normally dwelling on the dwelling vessel at the time of the request.
(2) Any licensee who, having been required to give informa- tion under paragraph (1), fails to do so, or gives information which he knows or reasonably ought to know to be false in a material particular, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
16. (1) The Governor may, by order, declare any area of the waters of Hong Kong to be closed to dwelling vessels.
(2) No dwelling vessel may enter or remain, or be permitted to enter or remain, in a closed area.
17. (1) The Director may, by notice affixed to the mast or other prominent part thereof, order that a dwelling vessel in a closed area or an unlicensed dwelling vessel in a prescribed area be removed therefrom within such time, being not less than 14 days, as the Director may specify in the notice; and such notice may be directed to any specified person, or generally to all persons normally dwelling on the vessel.
(2) Any person who, having been ordered to remove a dwell- ing vessel under paragraph (1), fails without reasonable cause to comply with such order commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(3) The Director may seize, remove and detain any dwelling vessel in respect of which an order for removal has been made and not complied with, and, for the purposes of such seizure, removal and detention, may remove any person or property found thereon.
(4) The Director may take possession of any property found on a dwelling vessel seized or detained under paragraph (3) and any such property shall become the property of the Crown free from the rights of any person and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Director thinks fit.
(5) Any person who obstructs the Director in the seizure, removal and detention of any dwelling vessel or in the removal of any person or property therefrom, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
18. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) the Director may, as soon as practicable after the seizure, removal and detention of a dwelling vessel under regulation 17, sell it by public auction or tender or in such other manner as he sees fit.
(2) The Director shall give not less than 5 days notice of the proposed sale, under paragraph (1), of any dwelling vessel by publishing notice thereof in one newspaper printed in the English
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