230. Miscellaneous offences in relation to marks

Where a Singapore ship is marked in accordance with any requirements as to marking imposed by or under the load line provisions or any regulations made thereunder, then if —

the owner or master of the ship fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship so marked; or

any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or causes or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate, any mark with which the ship is so marked, except where he does so under the authority of a person empowered under the regulations made under section 236 to authorise him in that behalf,he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.[250