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Issue and production of receipt for port dues and fees.

Tables of port dues and fees.

CAP. 313] Shipping and Port Control Regulations

[1985 Ed.

(3) Any expenses incurred by the Director in measuring a vessel under paragraph (2) shall be recoverable from the owner or his agent or the master of the vessel in the same manner as port dues payable under the Ordinance are recoverable.

(4) An owner or master of a vessel who refuses to allow his vessel to be measured under paragraph (2) or obstructs any person carrying out such measurement shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000.

54. (1) The Director shall issue a receipt for any port dues or fees paid under the Ordinance.

(2) The Director may require the production for inspection of any receipt issued under paragraph (1) and may refuse to grant port clearance in respect of a vessel, in respect of which any dues or fees are payable, until such receipt is produced.

55. The Director shall cause to be posted at such place as he may determine tables of all port dues and fees prescribed under the Ordinance.

Discharge and storage of logs and timber.

PART VII

LOGS AND OTHER TIMBER

56. (1) Except with the written permission of the Director, no person shall-

(a) load or discharge on or from a vessel logs or other timber onto or from any waterfront or seawall within the boundaries of any port other than within the limits of a privately owned or leased waterfront or seawall;

(b) discharge logs or other timber from a vessel into the waters of Hong Kong other than in a timber storage pound;

(c) store logs or other timber in the waters of Hong Kong other than in a timber storage pound;

(d) tow logs, or permit them to lie afloat or rest on the sea bed, in the waters of Hong Kong other than in a timber storage pound; or

(e) discharge logs or other timber (other than sawn timber) from one vessel to another in the waters of Hong Kong.

(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(3) The owner or his agent or master of a vessel from which it is intended to discharge logs or other timber (other than sawn timber) into any other vessel within the waters of Hong Kong shall give notice of such intention to the Director, in such form as the Director may specify, not less than 24 hours before the discharge commences.