Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 50

Miscellaneous offences in relation to marks

Where a ship registered in Hong Kong is marked in accordance with any
requirements as to marking imposed by or under this Part, then if-

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

   (b)  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 load line regulations to authorize him in that
        behalf, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10000.