Cap. 234 ст. 370Jurisdiction of Civil Court, First Hall. 

Deleted by XIV. 2006.104.

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 371. (1) Where under this Act a ship is to be or may be detained, any commissioned officer on full pay in the naval or 

military service of the Republic of Malta, or any police officer not

 below the rank of inspector, or any officer of customs, or any officer of the Ministry responsible for shipping, or any Maltese consular officer, or an appropriate inspector, may detain the ship, and if the ship after detention or after service on the master of any notice of or order for detention proceeds to sea before it is released by competent authority, the master of the ship, and also the owner or the bareboat charterer and any person who sends the ship to sea, if that owner, or bareboat charterer or person is party or privy to the offence, shall be liable for each offence to a fine (multa) not exceeding two hundred units.

(2) Where a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea when on board thereof there is, in the execution of his duty, any officer authorised to detain the ship, or any surveyor or officer of the Ministry responsible for shipping or any officer of customs, the owner or the bareboat charterer and master of the ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of and incidental to the officer or surveyor being so taken to sea, and also to a fine (multa) not exceeding two hundred units.

(3) Where under this Act a ship is to be detained, the officer authorised to clear the ship outwards shall, and where under this Act a ship may be detained such officer may, refuse to clear that ship outwards or to grant a transire to that ship.