Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 54

Revocation of detention orders, etc.

(1) The Director may revoke a detention order at any time.

(2) The Director shall, upon the request in writing of the owner of a
local vessel, his agent or the coxswain, revoke a detention order of which
that vessel is the subject if the Director is satisfied that the action
referred to in section 52(5)(g) specified in the order has been carried out.

(3) Where the period referred to in section 52(5)(h) specified in a
detention order expires without the Director being satisfied that the action
referred to in section 52(5)(g) specified in that order has been carried out,
then section 56 shall, with all necessary modifications, apply to and in
relation to the vessel as if it were an abandoned vessel.