1986 Ed.]
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27. (1) No unlicensed vessel shall carry any passenger. (2) No licensed vessel shall carry any passenger unless the conditions of its licence permit the carriage of passengers.
(3) No licensed vessel shall carry more passengers and crew than may lawfully be carried under the conditions of its licence.
(4) If without reasonable excuse subsection (1) or (2) is contravened, the owner or his agent and the master commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, and to an additional fine of $5,000 in respect of each passenger carried on the vessel in contravention of the subsection.
(5) If without reasonable excuse subsection (3) is contravened, the owner or his agent and the master commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for one year, and to an additional fine of $2,000 in respect of each person carried in excess of the number that may lawfully be carried.
28. (1) Any person who places on any safety valve of a vessel a pressure greater than that allowed under the conditions of its licence, or would have been allowed if the vessel had been licensed, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any owner or master of a vessel who permits the vessel to operate while in an unseaworthy or unsafe condition, whether by reason of overloading or from any other cause whatsoever, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(3) Without prejudice to any other penalty, the owner or master who commits a breach of any condition of the licence commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
29. (1) The Director shall cause examinations to be conducted for the grant of local certificates of competency required to be held by persons employed as masters or deck or engineering crew on vessels, and shall appoint examiners for that purpose. (Amended, 36 of 1986, s. 3)
(2) The Director may make rules prescribing or providing for—
(a) the issue by the Director of local certificates of competency and the method of granting such certificates;
(b) the classes and grades of local certificates of competency and the endorsements appropriate to each class and grade;
(c) the combining of two or more classes or grades of local certificate of competency in one document if appropriate;
(d) the addition or removal of endorsements on local certificates of competency;
Offences in relation to
the carrying of passengers.
Offences in
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respect of vessels.
Local certificates of competency for persons employed as masters, etc.
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1986 Ed.]
Shipping and Port Control
[CAP. 313
27. (1) No unlicensed vessel shall carry any passenger. (2) No licensed vessel shall carry any passenger unless the conditions of its licence permit the carriage of passengers.
(3) No licensed vessel shall carry more passengers and crew than may lawfully be carried under the conditions of its licence.
(4) If without reasonable excuse subsection (1) or (2) is con- travened, the owner or his agent and the master commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, and to an additional fine of $5,000 in respect of each passenger carried on the vessel in contravention of the subsection.
(5) If without reasonable excuse subsection (3) is contravened, the owner or his agent and the master commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for one year, and to an additional fine of $2,000 in respect of each person carried in excess of the number that may lawfully be carried.
28. (1) Any person who places on any safety valve of a vessel a pressure greater than that allowed under the conditions of its licence, or would have been allowed if the vessel had been licensed, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) Any owner or master of a vessel who permits the vessel to operate while in an unseaworthy or unsafe condition, whether by reason of overloading or from any other cause whatsoever, commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(3) Without prejudice to any other penalty, the owner or master who commits a breach of any condition of the licence commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprison- ment for 6 months.
29. (1) The Director shall cause examinations to be con- ducted for the grant of local certificates of competency required to be held by persons employed as masters or deck or engineering crew on vessels, and shall appoint examiners for that purpose. (Amended, 36 of 1986, s. 3)
(2) The Director may make rules prescribing or providing for-
(a) the issue by the Director of local certificates of competency
and the method of granting such certificates;
(b) the classes and grades of local certificates of competency and the endorsements appropriate to each class and grade;
(c) the combining of two or more classes or grades of local certificate of competency in one document if appropriate;
(d) the addition or removal of endorsements on local certi-
ficates of competency;
Offences in relation to
the carrying of passengers.
Offences in
17
respect of vessels.
Local certificates of competency for persons employed as masters, etc.
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