Section 96

wilfully and without lawful excuse loosens or removes, from its moorings or from its fastenings alongside any wharf or dock, any vessel in the port without leave or authority from the master or owner of the vessel or person in charge of the wharf or dock;

wilfully and without lawful excuse lifts, injures, makes a vessel fast to, loosens or sets adrift any moorings, buoys, beacons or sea or land marks;

without any lawful excuse discharges any gun in the port except for the purpose of making a signal of distress or for any other purpose allowed under any written law;

graves, breams or smokes any vessel in the port, or boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammar, turpentine oil or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within the port, at any time or within any limits at or within which such act is prohibited by any order of the Minister, or contrary to the orders or directions of the Port Master or the master of the vessel;

does or omits any act on board any vessel in the port which has caused or may cause fire on board the vessel; or

uses a vessel or permits a vessel to be used in the port —

when the vessel is in such a state that by reason of the defective condition of its hull, equipment or machinery, or by reason of undermanning or otherwise, the life of any person is likely to be endangered;

when the vessel is so loaded with goods or passengers or with both goods and passengers as to —

exceed the number of passengers allowed by the vessel’s safety certificate to be carried or received on the vessel; and

submerge the appropriate subdivision load line on each side of the vessel when the vessel has no list, that is to say, the subdivision load line appropriate to the space for the time being allotted to passengers on the vessel is lower than the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the vessel is for the time being entitled under any written law to be loaded when the vessel has no list;

in contravention of the regulations thus endangering the life of any person,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.