Section 13: Offences
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
13. Offences
(1) No person shall use the words “Coast Guard” or “National Coast Guard”
or “Mauritius Coast Guard” or any combination of them for the purposes of any
trade or by way of any advertisement in a manner likely to induce any person
or the public to believe that he has any connection with or enjoys the patronage of the National Coast Guard.
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(2) No person shall interfere with any buoyage or other navigation aid set
up by the National Coast Guard.
(3) No person shall set up any navigation aid without the prior written
approval of or in breach of any term or condition specified by the National
Coast Guard.
(4) The master of every vessel which fails to comply with section 10 (2)
shall commit an offence.
(5) Subsection (3) shall be without prejudice to any navigation aid set up
within any part of the harbour by the Mauritius Ports Authority.