SAFEGUARDING SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 14, 11 October 1917, Page 4

SAFEGUARDING SHIPS

REGULATIONS REGARDING CARGOWOEKERS. Further regulations for securing the 6afety of ships and cargoes during the war 'are published in. a Gazette Extraordinary issued last evening. The, regulations read:— ■ "Every person who l>y any act or aefault, whether wilful or negligent endangers tho safety of any ship or cargo shall be guilty. o£ an offence against these regulations, aud 6liall be liable accordingly. "After Ootober IT, 1917, save in pursuance of ft licence is3ued by a competent authority, it shall not be lawful for any alien, or for any person who is a. British subject by naturalisation only, to be engaged in the work of lading or unlading a ship, or to be engaged in any manner of work whatever on or about any wharf or ship. Nothing in this regulation shall apply to the work on or about any ship of the master or any member of the crew thereof who has arrived in that ship from any place out ot x>ew Zealand. Every person who is engaged in anv work in breach of the foregoing provisions sliall bo guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall w liable accordingly. Every person wh<> procures or permits any other person to be engaged in any work in breach, of this regulation shall be guilty of- an offence against these regulations, aud shall be liable accordingly; provided that on a prosecution for any such oifense it shall be a good defence that the accused believed on reasonable grounds that such engagement was not m bieach. of this regulUon. Evei-y licence issued by a competent authority under this reflation may be issued on such terms and conditions as that authority thinks fit and shall be revocable at the will of the same or any other competent or an officer of Customs may question any person engaged or. about to be engaged, in the work of lading or unlading a ship, or in any manner ofwork on or about a wharf or ship, or any person found upon a wharf or °W, ae Vhis identity and present or former nationality, and any person who refuses or neglects to answer any question B o put to him, or who answers any sul question in a false or misleading manner, shall be guilty of * n , of | em ?° Against these regulations, and;shall be liable accordingly. - t( ._, "Any/constable or officer of ■ Customs may search and detain for the purpose of search any person conveyance pacVeU or receptacle of any description found on or about any wharf or ship, and may for this purpose enter upon anv wharf or. ship. Every person who lesltl.obstructs, or deceives any conS^a^^or^feS competent authority is satisfied that the conduct .or character. of anv person is such that his exclusion from wharves and shipping is advisable Hhe interests of the public safety such competent author ty mayby order in writing warn that, peroon ott aii "ham? mA ahipe. Every such order stall take effect so soon as the making thereof has been brought in any manner o the knowledge of the K|™ °B«$ whom it is made. If while any Bucn orto remains in force the person again* whom it is made enters or remains upon w wharf or ship or loiters in tho vicinfty of any entrance to a wharf, he shall be guilty of an "f^ 0 ,/^ other competent authority.