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In forceAmended2020 Revised Edition

Part 11 · Miscellaneous

205. Powers of Director, etc.

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2019. 2 amendments in all.

(1)

The Director, the Port Master, a Port Health Officer, a surveyor of ships or a police officer may, at any time, for the purposes of this Act —

(a)

go on board any ship and inspect and examine the ship or any part of the ship or its equipment;

(b)

enter and inspect any premises;

(c)

require and enforce the production of any book, certificate or document relating to any ship or persons on board the ship;

(d)

muster all persons on board any ship;

(e)

summon any person before him or her and require the person to answer questions; and

(f)

require any ship to be taken into a dock for the purpose of surveying the hull.

(2)

The Director may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from the person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:

(a)

one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;

(b)

$2,000.

(3)

On payment of the sum of money under subsection (2), no further proceedings are to be taken against that person in respect of the offence.

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