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Damage, etc., to aids to navigation.
Liability for damage to port facilities, etc.
Power to require removal of unauthorized lights and signs.
[1986 Ed.
for the removal, moving or modification of a port facility or any floating or other structure laid, placed, erected or maintained in contravention of subsection (1).
7. (1) Any person who wilfully or negligently-
(a) removes, alters, damages, destroys, or interferes with, any aid to navigation or mooring; or
(b) makes fast to any aid to navigation,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(2) If an offence under subsection (1) is committed by a person on or in respect of a vessel, then, in addition to that person, the owner and the master of the vessel commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $5,000.
8. (1) Where any damage is caused by a vessel to any port facility, pier, breakwater or other property owned by the Government, the owner and the master of the vessel shall, without prejudice to the liability for an offence under this Ordinance, be jointly and severally liable for any loss arising out of the damage to the extent that such loss is attributable to any fault on the part of the vessel or to any wilful or negligent act of any person on the vessel.
(2) Such loss may be recovered by the Director as a civil debt.
9. The Director may direct an owner or his agent or the master of any vessel, or any person who appears to him to be the owner or occupier of a place on land, at or from which there is exhibited a light or illuminated sign which, in the opinion of the Director-
(a) obscures, restricts or interferes with, or is likely to obscure, restrict or interfere with, the functions or use of any signal station or aid to navigation;
(b) is likely to be mistaken for a light or signal proceeding from any signal station or aid to navigation; or
(c) in any way interferes with, or is likely to interfere with, the safe navigation of vessels in the waters of Hong Kong,
to remove the light or illuminated sign or to extinguish or screen it in the manner specified in the direction.
Application of the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea. [cf. 1894 c. 60, s. 419(2)]
PART III
CONTROL OVER VESSELS AND PORTS
10. (1) The international regulations for preventing collisions at sea shall apply to all vessels within the waters of Hong Kong, subject to any special provision in or under this Ordinance relating to any requirement contained in such regulations.
(2) If a contravention of the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea as applied under subsection (1) is caused
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Shipping and Port Control
Damage, etc., to aids to navigation.
Liability for
damage to port facilities, etc.
Power to require removal of unauthorized lights and signs.
[1986 Ed.
for the removal, moving or modification of a port facility or any floating or other structure laid, placed, erected or maintained in contravention of subsection (1).
7. (1) Any person who wilfully or negligently-
(a) removes, alters, damages, destroys, or interferes with, any
aid to navigation or mooring; or
(b) makes fast to any aid to navigation,
commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(2) If an offence under subsection (1) is committed by a person on or in respect of a vessel, then, in addition to that person, the owner and the master of the vessel commit an offence and each of them is liable to a fine of $5,000.
8. (1) Where any damage is caused by a vessel to any port facility, pier, breakwater or other property owned by the Govern- ment, the owner and the master of the vessel shall, without prejudice to the liability for an offence under this Ordinance, be jointly and severally liable for any loss arising out of the damage to the extent that such loss is attributable to any fault on the part of the vessel or to any wilful or negligent act of any person on the vessel.
(2) Such loss may be recovered by the Director as a civil debt.
9. The Director may direct an owner or his agent or the master of any vessel, or any person who appears to him to be the owner or occupier of a place on land, at or from which there is exhibited a light or illuminated sign which, in the opinion of the Director-
(a) obscures, restricts or interferes with, or is likely to obscure, restrict or interfere with, the functions or use of any signal station or aid to navigation;
(b) is likely to be mistaken for a light or signal proceeding
from any signal station or aid to navigation; or
(c) in any way interferes with, or is likely to interfere with, the
safe navigation of vessels in the waters of Hong Kong,
to remove the light or illuminated sign or to extinguish or screen it in the manner specified in the direction.
Application of the international regulations for preventing
collisions at sea. [cf. 1894 c. 60, s. 419(2),)
PART III
CONTROL OVER
ESSELS AND PORTS
10. (1) The international regulations for preventing collisions at sea shall apply to all vessels within the waters of Hong Kong, subject to any special provision in or under this Ordinance relating to any requirement contained in such regulations.
(2) If a contravention of the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea as a applied under subsection (1) is caused
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