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Cap. 234 · Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234)

Cap. 234 Art. 233Penalty for carrying passengers in excess or on more than one deck below water line. 

PART V

In forceOfficial text

(1) The owner or master of any ship to which article 207

applies shall not receive or have on board thereof, or in any part thereof, any number of passengers which, having regard to the time, occasion and circumstances of the case, is greater than the  number allowed by the passenger ship certificate in respect of that ship; and if he does so he shall for each offence be liable to a fine

(multa) not exceeding four hundred units.

(2) The owner or master of any passenger ship to which article 207 applies shall not carry passengers on more than one deck below the water line; and if he does so he shall for each offence be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding five hundred units.