Section 587: Enforcing detention of ship

587. Enforcing detention of ship.—(1) Where under this Ordinance a ship is authorised, or ordered, to be detained, any commissioned officer of the Pakistan Navy, or any Principal Officer or officer of Customs may detain the ship. (2) If any ship after detention, or after service on the master of any notice of, or order for, such detention, proceeds to sea before she is released by competent authority, the master of the ship shall be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees. (3) When a ship so proceeding to sea takes to sea, when on board thereof in the execution of his duty, any person authorised under this Ordinance to detain or survey the ship, the owner, master or agent of such ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of, and incidental to, such person being so taken to sea, and shall also be liable to a fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees. (4) When any owner, master or agent is convicted of an offence under sub-section (3), the Magistrate convicting him may inquire into and determine the amount payable on account of expenses by such owner, master or agent under that sub-section, and may direct that the same shall be recovered from him in the manner provided for the recovery of fines.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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