### Shipping and Port Control Ordinance 《船舶及港口管制條例》

69. Duty to report fires on vessels
(1) Where—
(a) a fire occurs on board a vessel within the waters of Hong Kong; or
(b) a vessel which is on fire arrives within the waters of Hong Kong,
the owner or his agent or the master of the vessel shall report such occurrence or arrival forthwith to the Director of Fire Services.
(2) The Director of Fire Services and any member of the Fire Services Department of or above the rank of Principal Fireman may, at any time of day or night, board any vessel in the waters of Hong Kong, other than a warship, for the purpose of extinguishing a fire on board the vessel whether or not the fire has been reported to the Director of Fire Services, and may take with him such persons as may be necessary to assist him for such purpose.
(3) An owner, agent or master who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2021)

70. Boarding ships without authority
(1) No person, other than a member of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in uniform and acting under Article 14 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Garrisoning of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Schedule 2 to the Promulgation of National Laws (No. 2) 1997 (L.N. 386 of 1997) or a person duly authorized by law for the purpose, shall without the permission of the owner or his agent or the master of a ship go on board the ship. (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
(2) A master of a ship may take into custody any person who contravenes subsection (1) and shall deliver such person forthwith to a police officer.
(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2021)

71. Cutting of moorings
Any person, other than the Director or a person authorized by him, who without lawful excuse cuts a mooring or fastening of a vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2.
(Amended E.R. 3 of 2021)

### Shipping and Port Control Ordinance 《船舶及港口管制條例》

72. Endangering the safety of others
Any person who by any unlawful act, or in any manner whatsoever without reasonable excuse, endangers or causes to be endangered the safety of any person conveyed in or being in or upon any vessel or in the sea commits an offence and is liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 4 years; and
(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Amended 2 of 1979 s. 2)

72A. Beaching or scuttling vessel
Any person who, by any unlawful act or in any manner whatsoever without reasonable excuse, disables, abandons, scuttles or beaches any vessel within the waters of Hong Kong commits an offence and is liable—
(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 4 years; and
(b) on summary conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Added 2 of 1979 s. 3)

73. Discharge, storage, etc. of logs and other timber
Except in pursuance of the regulations made under this Ordinance, no person shall—
(a) load or discharge logs or other timber at any public waterfront or public seawall within any port;
(b) discharge logs or other timber from a vessel into the waters of Hong Kong; or
(c) tow or store logs or other timber in the waters of Hong Kong.

74. Obstruction
(1) Any person who obstructs the Director, or any other person, performing or exercising any function, duty or power under this Ordinance commits an offence and, subject to subsection (2), is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) An owner, agent or master of a vessel who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(Amended E.R. 3 of 2021)

### Shipping and Port Control Ordinance 《船舶及港口管制條例》

75. False information
(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Ordinance, any person who, being required to give any information to the Director or any other person under this Ordinance, fails without reasonable excuse to give such information or gives any information, whether in writing, orally or otherwise, which he knows to be false or misleading as to a material particular commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2 and to imprisonment for 6 months. (Amended 46 of 1981 s. 11; E.R. 3 of 2021)
(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Magistrates Ordinance (Cap. 227), proceedings in respect of an offence against this section may be brought at any time within 2 years next after the commission of the offence or within 6 months after the first discovery thereof by the prosecutor, whichever period expires first.

76. Use of official log book in evidence
(1) In any legal proceedings for a contravention of this Ordinance, any entry in the official log book of a vessel, deck log book, engine room log book or other similar document, or a document purporting to be a copy of any such entry and to be certified as a true copy by any person specified in subsection (2), shall, until the contrary is proved—
(a) be admitted in evidence and be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein; and
(b) in the case of such a copy, be presumed that it is so certified.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the persons who may certify copies of entries in an official log book, deck log book, engine room log book or other similar document are—
(a) the Director or any person authorized by him in writing in that behalf;
(b) a magistrate;
(c) (Repealed 47 of 1997 s. 10)(d) a notary public, as defined in the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159);
(e) a consular officer.