Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 41

Restriction on carrying out repairs or breaking up of local vessels

(1) Subject to subsections (1A) and (2), no owner or coxswain of, or other
person having control over, a local vessel shall, except with the written
permission of the Director, carry out, or cause to be carried out, any repairs
to, or break up, the vessel. (Amended 70 of 1999 s. 21)

(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply to any local vessels of 50 metres or less
in length unless the Director gives written notification to the
person in charge of works that subsection (1) applies to that vessel. (Added
70 of 1999 s. 21)

(2) The Director may, by notice in the Gazette, specify any type of repairs to
a local vessel in respect of which permission under subsection

(1) is not required.

(3) Any person who without reasonable excuse contravenes subsection

(1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6 and to
imprisonment for 2 years. (Amended 70 of 1999 s. 21)