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 SAINT VINCENT.

 STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS,
 1970, No. 35.

 LICENSING OF COASTING VESSELS REGULATIONS, 1970.

 (Gazetted 16th June, 1970).

 1. Short tile. These Regulations may be cited as the Licensing of
Coasting Vessels Regulations, 1970.

 2. Interpretation. In these Regulations "Coasting Vessel" has the mean-
ing assigned in the Port Officers Ordinance, 1969.

 3. Coasting Vessels to be Licensed. The Port Officer may issue licences
for the keeping and use of Coasting Vessels under these Regulations.

 4. Fees chargeable for Licences. Licences for Coasting Vessels shall
run from the first day of January, until the thirty-first day of December in
each year, and a licence fee calculated at the rate of thirty-six cents per ton
shall be chargeable in respect of each Coasting Vessel.

 5. Payment of fees. Licence fees shall be paid to the Port Officer who
shall be responsible for payment of the same into the Consolidated Fund.

 6. Offence. If any Coasting Vessel is kept or used without there being
in force in relation to such keeping or use a licence issued under these Regu-
lations the owner, charterer or person in control shall be guilty of an offence.

 7. Power of seizure and detention. The Port Officer shall personally
or by any agent or agents in that behalf duly authorised by writing under
his hand, seize and detain any Coasting Vessel for the keeping and use of
which during the current year a licence does not appear to have been ob-
tained under these Regulations and shall, unless satisfied that a licence
under these Regulations was in force in relation to the said vessel the said
vessel at the time of such seizure, dispose of the same on the direction of
a Magistrate, which direction may be obtained on application made to such
Magistrate. Any person being aggrieved by the seizure of such vessel may
apply to a Magistrate for its restoration and by the Port Officer which shall
he lodged at ttie Office of the Mavistrate. The Magistrate shall make such
order as may appear to be just, including any order for costs including costs
of seizure and retention. Any vessel seized in accordance with this regula-
tion which remains unclaimed for a period of three months shall become the