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ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1879 . 1537


Merchant Shipping.


6. Where under this Ordinance a ship is authorised or ordered to be Enforcing
detention of
detained , if the ship after such detention or after service on the master of ship.
M. S. A.
any notice of or order for such detention proceeds to sea before it is 1876, sec. 34. ]

released by competent authority , the master of the ship , and also the owner
or agent and any person who sends the ship to sea, if such owner or
agent or person be party or privy to the offence . shall forfeit and pay to
Her Majesty a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars .



7. Where a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea when on board

thereof in the execution of his duty any officer authorised to detain the
ship, or any surveyor or officer appointed by the Governor, the owner
and master of the ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of and in

cidental to the officer or surveyor being so taken to sea and also a penalty
not exceeding five hundred dollars, or, if the offence is not prosecuted in
a summary manner, not exceeding fifty dollars for every day until the
officer or surveyor returns, or until such time as would enable him after
leaving the ship to return to the port from which he is taken, and such
expenses may be recovered in like manner as the penalty .


General
8. In addition to the powers hereinbefore given , it shall be lawful for power to the
the Governor in Council, from time to time, to make, alter and repeal Governor in
Council to
regulations for the better and more effectual carrying out of the provisions make regula
tions.
of this Ordinance.



9. In any regulations under this Ordinance, except with reference to And to impose
penalties.
quarantine, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to impose
penalties for the breach thereof, but so nevertheless that the penalty for
the breach of any such regulations do not exceed two hundred dollars or
six months ' imprisonment with or without hard labour.


10. Where the Governor has power to make any orders, rules , or Provisions as
to rules, &c.
regulations in Council it shall be lawful for him, from time to time, to made by
Governor in
make such orders, rules and regulations in Council and to revoke, alter , Council.
[M. S. A.
or add to any orders, rules or regulations so made. 1876, sec. 38.



11. All such orders, rules and regulations shall be published in the
Gazette .