Section 70: Affixing seals to pleasure craft
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
70. Affixing seals to pleasure craft
(1) Where a person is found, or is reasonably suspected of, using a pleasure craft in contravention of this Act or any regulation made under it, or any
prohibition made by virtue of this Act, or in breach of the terms and conditions
of the pleasure craft licence, and steps need to be taken to discontinue the
offence, an authorised officer may, for the purposes of affixing seals to the
pleasure craft, take, or cause to be taken, or direct the person in charge of it
to take, the pleasure craft to a place of safety specified by the authorised
officer.
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(2) Any person who—
(a) refuses or neglects to comply with a direction under subsection (1);
(b) breaks the seals affixed under subsection (1);
(c) removes the pleasure craft from the place of safety pending the
decision of the Director under subsection (3),
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not
less than 5,000 rupees and not exceeding 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
[S. 70 amended by s. 22 of Act 3 of 2008 w.e.f. 1 June 2008; s. 29 (b) of Act 38 of 2011
w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]