Hong Kong Regulations

PORT CONTROL (CARGO WORKING AREAS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 11A

Removal of vessels

(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of these regulations, the
Director may, where any vessel enters, or remains in, a public cargo working
area or public water-front in contravention of these regulations, direct the
owner or the person in charge of such vessel to remove the vessel from the
public cargo working area or public water-front within such time as the
Director may specify in the direction.

(2) If the owner or the person in charge of a vessel fails, without reasonable
excuse, to comply with a direction given under paragraph (1), he shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $5000 and
to imprisonment for 6 months.

(3) Where the Director has reason to believe that an offence has been
committed under paragraph (2) he may, whether or not any person is or will be
prosecuted for that offence, remove such vessel or cause it to be removed from
the public cargo working area or public water-front and may take possession of
the vessel or cause possession of it to be taken for the purposes of such
removal.

(4) The Director may recover the cost of any action taken or caused to be
taken under paragraph (3) as a civil debt from the owner of the vessel in
respect of which the action was taken. (L.N. 332 of 1982)