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413.   Offences in connection with passenger ships

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

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413.   Offences in connection with passenger ships

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    (1)   Any person on board or attempting to board a passenger ship in Saint Lucian waters commits an offence who—

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      (a)     on account of being disorderly or under the influence of alcohol or drugs, is either refused admission to a passenger ship or where the person is already on board and is requested by the owner or any person in the employment of the owner to leave the ship, and after having the amount of any fare paid by him or her returned or tendered to him or her, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship, or where he or she is already on board, does not leave the ship;

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      (b)     after warning by the master or other officer of the ship, molests or continues to molest any passenger;

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      (c)     on account of the ship being full, is either refused admission to a passenger ship, or where he or she is already on board, is requested by the owner or any person in the employment of the owner to leave the ship, and after having the amount of any fare paid by him or her returned to or tendered to him or her, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship, or where he or she is already on board, does not leave the ship;

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      (d)     travels or attempts to travel in the ship without first paying his or her fare and with intent to avoid payment thereof;

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      (e)     having paid his or her fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in the ship beyond that distance without first paying the additional fare for the additional distance, intending to avoid payment thereof;

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      (f)     on arriving in a ship at the place to which he or she has paid his or her fare, knowingly refuses or neglects to leave the ship;

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      (g)     fails, when requested by the master or other officer of the ship either to pay his or her fare or exhibit such ticket or other receipts showing the payment of his or her fare as is usually given to persons travelling by and paying their fare for the ship; or

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      (h)     wilfully does or causes to be done anything to obstruct or injure any part of the ship or the machinery or tackle of the ship, or to obstruct, impede or molest any of the crew in the navigation or management of the ship or otherwise in the execution of their duty on or about the ship.

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    (2)   A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and to imprisonment for one month or to both such fine and imprisonment.

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