Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 83

Signals of distress

(1) If the master of a ship uses or displays or causes or permits any person
under his authority to use or display-

   (a)  any signal prescribed by regulations made under section 100 except in
        the circumstances and for the purposes prescribed by regulations made
        under that section; or

   (b)  any private signal, whether registered or not, which is liable to be
        mistaken for any signal prescribed by those regulations, he commits an
        offence and is liable to a fine of $20000 and shall further be liable
        to pay compensation for any labour undertaken, risk incurred or loss
        sustained in consequence of the signal having been supposed to be a
        signal of distress; and that compensation may, without prejudice to
        any other remedy, be recovered in the same manner as salvage. (Amended
        56 of 1990 s. 7)

(2) Nothing in section 82(3) shall interfere with the transmission of signals
prescribed by regulations made under section 100.

(3) In this section "ship" (船、船舶) includes a junk and a trawler to
which Part XII of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance ( Cap 281) applies. (Added
56 of 1990 s. 7)

"ship" (船、船舶)