Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE - SECT 70

Director's permission to do restricted acts

(1) Where it is provided under this Ordinance that no person shall do, or
cause or permit to be done, any specified act without the permission of the
Director, the Director may-

   (a)  on application made to him in such manner as he may determine; and

   (b)  on payment to him of the prescribed fee (if any), permit the specified
        act to be done subject to such conditions as he may specify generally
        or in any particular case.

(2) Except where this Ordinance provides for a written permission, a
permission under this Ordinance may be granted orally or by means of signals.

(3) A written permission granted under this Ordinance shall be-

   (a)  kept on the local vessel or at the place in which the act in respect
        of which the permission is required is being done; and

   (b)  produced for inspection by the Director, an authorized officer, or by
        any other officer appointed for the purposes of this Ordinance, on
        demand or within such time and at such place as the Director or such
        officer may specify.

(4) If any person to whom a written permission is granted under this Ordinance
without reasonable excuse fails to comply with subsection

(3)(a) or to produce it under subsection (3)(b), he commits an offence and is
liable on conviction to a fine at level 1.

(5) A permission granted under this Ordinance may be withdrawn or cancelled by
the Director-

   (a)  if any condition of the permission is not complied with; or

   (b)  if the Director considers it necessary to do so for any other reason.

(6) Where a person without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any
condition of a permission granted under this Ordinance, he commits an offence
and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3.