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Boarding ships without authority.

Cutting of moorings.

Endangering the safety of others.

Beaching or scuttling vessel.

Discharge, storage, etc. of logs and other timber.

Shipping and Port Control

[1986 Ed.

Hong Kong, other than a warship, for the purpose of extinguishing a fire on board the vessel whether or not the fire has been reported to the Director of Fire Services, and may take with him such persons as may be necessary to assist him for such purpose.

(3) An owner, agent or master who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.

70. (1) No person, other than a member of Her Majesty's forces in uniform and on duty or a person duly authorized by law for the purpose, shall without the permission of the owner or his agent or the master of a ship go on board the ship.

(2) A master of a ship may take into custody any person who contravenes subsection (1) and shall deliver such person forthwith to a police officer.

(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

71. Any person, other than the Director or a person author- ized by him, who without lawful excuse cuts a mooring or fastening of a vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.

72. Any person who by any unlawful act, or in any manner whatsoever without reasonable excuse, endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed in or being in or upon any vessel or in the sea commits an offence and is liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000 and to

imprisonment for 4 years; and

(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to im-

prisonment for 2 years.

(Amended, 2 of 1979, s. 2)

72A. Any person who, by any unlawful act or in any manner whatsoever without reasonable excuse, disables, abandons, scuttles or beaches any vessel within the waters of Hong Kong commits an offence and is liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000 and to

imprisonment for 4 years; and

(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to im-

prisonment for 2 years.

(Added, 2 of 1979, s. 3)

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73. Except in pursuance of the regulations made under this Ordinance, no person shall-

(a) load or discharge logs or other timber at any public

waterfront or public seawall within any port;