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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Chapter IX : Offences, Penal Provisions and Legal Procedure

319. Offences in connection with passenger ships

 

(1) No person shall—
(a) if, on account of his being drunk or disorderly, he has been refused admission to a passenger ship by the owner thereof or any person in his employ, and if he has received or been tendered a refund of his fare (if he has paid it), go on board the ship; or
(b) if, on account of his being drunk or disorderly on board any passenger ship, he has been requested by the master or any other person employed in the ship to leave the ship at any place in the Republic at which he can conveniently do so, and if he has received or been tendered a refund of his fare (if he has paid it), refuse or fail to comply with the request; or
(c) after warning by the master of or any other person employed in a passenger ship, molest or continue to molest any passenger on the ship; or
(d) after having been refused admission to a passenger ship by the owner thereof or any person in his employ on account of the ship being full, and having received or been tendered a refund of his fare (if he has paid it), go on board the ship; or
(e) if, having gone on board a passenger ship at any place in the Republic, he has been requested, on account of the ship being full, by the master of or any other person employed in the ship to quit the ship, before it has left that place, and has received or been tendered a refund of his fare (if he has paid it), refuse or fail to comply with the request; or
(f) travel in any passenger ship without first paying his fare, and with intent to evade payment thereof; or
(g) if he has paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly proceed in a passenger ship beyond that distance without first paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to evade payment thereof; or
(h) if he has arrived in a passenger ship at a place to which he has paid his fare, knowingly refuse or fail to quit the ship; or
(i) being on board a passenger ship, and being requested by the master of or any other person employed in the ship, either to pay his fare or exhibit his ticket or other document showing payment of his fare, refuse or fail to comply with the request; or
(j) being on board a passenger ship, and being requested by the master or any other person employed in the ship to furnish his name and address, refuse or fail to comply with the request or furnish a false name or address.

 

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply in respect of all passenger ships wherever registered while they are in the Republic or the territorial waters thereof.