Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Offences in relation to carrying of passengers

(1) No unlicensed local vessel shall carry any passenger.

(2) No licensed vessel shall carry any passenger unless the conditions of its
operating licence permit the carriage of passengers.

(3) No licensed vessel shall carry more passengers and crew than may lawfully
be carried under the conditions of its operating licence.

(4) If without reasonable excuse subsection (1) or (2) is contravened, the
owner of the vessel, his agent and the coxswain commit an offence and each of
them is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2
years, and to an additional fine at level 2 in respect of each passenger
carried on the vessel in contravention of that subsection.

(5) If without reasonable excuse subsection (3) is contravened, the owner of
the vessel, his agent and the coxswain commit an offence and each of them is
liable on conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 1 year, and
to an additional fine at level 1 in respect of each person carried in excess
of the number that may lawfully be carried.