Section 14Part 0 —
Offences
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Whoever maliciously —
sets adrift or attempts to set adrift any vessel which is berthed or lying on the foreshore;
interferes or attempts to interfere with any lighthouse or day marker;
does damage to any vessel;
makes or attempts to make any signal to any vessel which if acted upon would involve injury or the risk of injury to any person or property; or
introduces any noxious or explosive matter into or over territorial waters or upon the foreshore, proof of absence of malice being upon the person charged, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment with or without hard labour for five years.
Whoever —
obstructs or resists any officer acting in the course of that officer's duty;
personates any officer;
not being authorised in that behalf, enters upon any part of any port from which the public is excluded;
dumps any litter in territorial waters;
not being authorised by the Authority in that behalf, introduces or discharges any waste matter or effluent into territorial waters;
navigates any vessel in such a manner as to cause damage or risk of damage to any person or property;
loiters in any port area with intent to commit an offence, proof of absence of such intent being upon the person charged;
fails to comply with the lawful directions of the Director with respect to any cargo;
contravenes any provision of this Act or of any regulation for which no specific penalty is elsewhere in this Act provided;
fails to comply with the lawful directions of the Director with respect to any vessel; or
by any means gives or attempts to give any false information upon any matter touching this Act, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment with or without hard labour for one year.
Where any offence proved to have been committed against this section involves damage to any property of the Authority, the court may order the convicted person to make good such damage or to pay to the Authority the cost thereof and such order may be enforced in the same manner as the judgement of a civil court.