Ports safety amendment (1857) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO VICESIMO-PRIMO VICTORIIE REGIME.

No. HI.

An Ordinance to Provide additional Regula-

tions for the Port of Fremantle.

Superintendent of Water Police their intention so to do, and, it iswHERE-AS persons are in the habit of crossing the River Bar atFremantle after sundown in boats, without reporting to the

expedient to prohibit such practices : Be it enacted, by His

Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Depen- Preamble'

dencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

Council thereof:—

I. THAT if, from and after the passing of this Ordinance, any If boat be wilfully

boat or vessel shall, between sundown and sunrise, be wilfully taken taken to seaward af.

ter sundown.

21st Viet., No. 3. 1857.

or conveyed to seaward across the Bar at the mouth of the Swan

Without permission. River, in the said Colouy, without the previous written permission of the Superintendent or other officer of Water Police on duty for

Every person active- the time being, every person employed or acting as one of the crew

ly concerned. or otherwise, in so taking or conveying such boat or vessel as afore- said, and every person hiring, or letting to hire, or otherwise know-

Even passengers i ; if.

proved abettors.

ugly procuring, or as a passenger therein knowingly assisting in procuring, such boat or vessel to be so taken or conveyed as aforesaid, shall, on conviction therof before any two or more

Penalty.

Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds ; and every person so convicted, being a licensed boatman

Boatman or owner to

or licensed boatowner, shall, over and above any such penalty as aforesaid, forfeit his license for the residue of the current year ;ur

f

forfeit licenses.

and if the penalty so imposed as aforesaid shall not be paid forth-

Imprisonment.

with, or within such time as the convicting Justices shall determine, the offender so convicted may be imprisoned, with or without hard

Twelve months.

labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months.

IL PROVIDED always, and be it enacted, that nothing herein

contained shall apply, or be construed to apply, to any passenger

Not to applyto in any such boat, not knowingly assisting in procuring as aforesaid, mere passenger. not being an escaped or escaping convict, and not having or exer-

cising any control over such boat or vessel as aforesaid, or any

proprietorship or share therein

III. THAT this Ordinance be incorporated with, and deemed and taken to form part of, the Ordinance 14th Victoria No. 20, of 1851.

A. E. KENNEDY,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council this}

22nd day of June, 1857.

HENRY WAREFORD,

Clerk of the Council.

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