Section 97

wilfully and without lawful excuse, loosens or removes from its moorings or from its fastenings alongside any wharf or dock, any vessel in the port without leave or authority from the master or owner of such vessel or person in charge of such wharf or dock;

wilfully and without lawful excuse, lifts, injures, makes a vessel fast to, loosens or sets adrift, any moorings, buoys, beacons or sea or land marks;

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without any lawful excuse discharges any gun in the port except for the purpose of making a signal of distress or for such other purpose as is allowed under any written law;

graves. breams or smokes any vessel in the port, or boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammar, turpentine oil or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within the port, at any time or within any limits at or wi-thin which such act is prohibited by any order of the Minister, or contrary to the orders or directions of the Port

Master or the master of such vessel;

does or omits any act on board any vessel in the port which has caused or may cause fire on board such vessel; or

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uses a vessel or permits a vessel to be used in the port -

when such vessel is in such a state that by reason of the defective condition of its hull, equipment or machinery, or by reason of under-manning or otherwise, the life of any person is likely to be endangered;

exceed the number of passengers allowed by the vessel's safety certificate to be carried or received on the vessel; and

submerge the appropriate subdivision load line on each side of the vessel when the vessel has no list, that is to say, the subdivision load line appropriate to the space for the time being allotted to passengers on the vessel, is lower than the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the vessel is for the time being entitled under any written law to be loaded when the vessel has no list;

hinders, obstructs or molests the Authority or any of its employees, agents or contractors in the performance and execution of their duty or of anything which they are respectively empowered or required to do so by virtue or in consequence of this Act; or

removes any mark set up for the purpose of indicating any level or direction necessary to the execution of works authorised by this Act, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding

$5,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.

Preservation of secrecy 99.

Except for the purpose of the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions or when lawfully required to do so by any court or under the provisions of any written law, no person who is or has been a member, an officer, an employee, an adviser or an agent of the Authority or a member of a committee of the Authority shall disclose any information relating to the affairs of the Authority or of any other person which has been obtained by him in the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions.

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or both.