Section 10: Authority to board a vessel
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10. Authority to board a vessel
(1) Members of the National Coast Guard may, in the execution of their
duties or in the exercise of their authority, board any vessel.
(2) Every vessel that is underway shall, upon being hailed to by a vessel
of the National Coast Guard, stop immediately and lie to or manoeuvre in
such a way as to permit the members of the National Coast Guard to board
the vessel.
(3) The officer in charge of the National Coast Guard boarding party
shall, upon boarding a vessel, identify himself to the master, owner, skipper
or operator of the vessel and explain his mission.
(4) Where a vessel does not bring to upon being ordered by any vessel or
aircraft of the National Coast Guard to do so, the person in command of the
vessel or aircraft of the National Coast Guard may, after a gun has been fired
as a warning signal, fire at or into the vessel which does not bring to.
(5) No action, civil or criminal, shall lie in respect of anything done in
good faith in compliance with subsection (4).