Section 303Part 13 — CONTROL OF, AND RETURNS AS TO, PERSONS ON SHIPS
Offences in connection with passenger ships
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A person commits an offence if, in relation to a ship to which this section applies —
being drunk or disorderly, the person has been on that account refused admission to the ship by the owner or a person in the owner’s employment, and, after having the amount of the person’s fare (if the person has paid it) returned or tendered to the person, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship;
being drunk or disorderly on board the ship, the person is requested by the owner or a person in the owner’s employment to leave the ship at any place in the Islands at which the owner or a person in the owner’s employment can conveniently do so, and, after having the amount of the person’s fare (if the person has paid it) returned or tendered to the person, does not comply with the request;
on board the ship, after warning by the master or other officer of the ship, the person molests or continues to molest any passenger;
after having been refused admission to the ship by the owner or a person in that person’s employment on account of the ship being full, and having had the amount of the person’s fare (if the person has paid it) returned or tendered to the person, the person nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship;
having gone on board the ship at any place, and being requested, on account of the ship being full, by the owner or a person in that person’s employment to leave the ship before it has left that place, and having had the amount of the person’s fare (if the person has paid it) returned or tendered to the person, the person does not comply with that request;
on arriving in the ship at a place to which the person has paid the person’s fare, the person knowingly and intentionally refuses or neglects to leave the ship; or
on board the ship the person fails, when requested by the master or other officer of the ship, either to pay the person’s fare or show such ticket or other receipt, if any, showing the payment of the person’s fare, as is usually given to persons travelling by and paying their fare for the ship,
but the person’s liability, in respect of any such offence, shall not prejudice the recovery of any fare payable by the person.
A person commits an offence if, on board any ship to which this section applies, the person intentionally does or causes to be done anything in such a manner as to —
obstruct or damage any part of the machinery or equipment of the ship; or
obstruct, impede or molest the crew, or any of them, in the navigation or management of the ship, or otherwise in the execution of their duty on or about the ship.
The master or other officer of any ship to which this section applies, and all persons called by the master or officer to the master’s or officer’s assistance, may, without any warrant, detain any person who commits any offence against subsections (1) or (2) and whose name and address are unknown to the master or officer, and deliver that person to a constable.
A person who commits an offence under subsections (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
A person who commits an offence against subsections (1) or (2), and on the application of the master of the ship, or any other person in the employment of the owner of the ship, refuses to give the person’s name and address, or gives a false name or address, is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
This section applies to a ship for which there is in force a Passenger Ship Safety Certificate, issued under or recognised by this Act.