Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 66

Laid-up vessel

(1) In this section, "laid-up vessel" (閑置船隻) means any local  vessel,
other than a dead vessel, which remains or is to remain within the waters of
Hong Kong through lack of employment or pending the outcome of any legal
proceedings before any court.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), no laid-up vessel shall, except with the
written permission of the Director, be berthed, moored or anchored at any
place in the waters of Hong Kong.

(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply to a laid-up vessel which is dry-docked or
within the precincts of, or berthed or moored alongside, a dockyard.

(4) The Director may attach conditions to a written permission under this
section.

(5) Where the Director refuses to grant permission under this section in
respect of a laid-up vessel, or attaches conditions to such a permission, he
shall serve a notice in writing on the person who sought such permission
setting out his reasons for the refusal or conditions, as the case may be.

(6) Where the Director is satisfied that any of the conditions attached to a
written permission under this section have been contravened, he may serve a
notice in writing on the person who sought such permission revoking the
permission and setting out the reasons for the revocation.

(7) If without reasonable excuse subsection (2) is contravened, or any
conditions attached under subsection (4) are contravened, the owner of the
local vessel, his agent and the coxswain of the vessel commit an offence and
each of them is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment
for 6 months.

"laid-up vessel" (閑置船隻)