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s 15 Power to detain and sell vessel
(1) The Director General may detain any vessel from which the oil, mixture containing oil or pollutant escaped or was discharged in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 14(1).
(2) The Director General may release any vessel detained under subsection (1) upon the owner depositing with the Government such sum of money or furnishing such security as, in the opinion of the Director General, would be adequate to meet all costs and expenses incurred in carrying out the work required to remove, disperse, destroy or mitigate the damage or threat of damage caused by such escape or discharge.
(3) If any vessel which has been detained proceeds to sea without being released under subsection (2), the owner or master of the vessel or any other person who causes the vessel to proceed to sea shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one million ringgit.
(4) Where the owner or master of such vessel or any other person found guilty of an offence under this section is unable to pay the fine or the costs and expenses incurred in carrying out the work required under subsection 14(1), the court may, on the application of the Director General, order the sale of such vessel and the application of the proceeds of the sale towards the payment of the fine and the costs and expenses incurred.
Malay text (authoritative)
(1) Ketua Pengarah boleh menahan mana-mana Kuasa untuk vesel yang daripadanya minyak, campuran berminyak nen menjual atau pencemar terlepas atau dilepaskan dalam hal vesel. keadaän yang disebutkan dalam subseksyen (1) seksyen 14.
(2) Ketua Pengarah boleh melepaskan mana-mana vesel yang ditahan di bawah subseksyen (1) apabila pemunya mendepositkan dengan Kerajaan apa-apa punda pevanpataü ma eni asku ai seb mimadayangi menampung segala kos dan perbelanjaan yang dikenakan dalam menjalankan kerja yang dikehendaki untuk menyelerakkan, memusnahkan atau memindahkam kerosakan atau ancaman berlakunya memperbaiki kerosakan disebabkan oleh terlepasnya atau pelepasan tersebut.
(3) Jika mana-mana vesel yang telah ditahan meneruskan perjalanan ke laut tanpa dilepaskan di bawah subseksyen (-), pemunya atau naknoda vesel atau manamana orang lain yang menyebabkan vesel itu meneruskan perjalanan ke laut adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan dan boleh dikenakan denda tidak melebihi satu juta ringgit.
(4) Jika pemunya atau nakhoda mana-mana vesel atau mana-mana orang lain yang didapati melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah seksyen ini tidak dapat membayar denda atau kos dan perbelanjaan yang dikenakan dalam menjalankan kerja yang dikehendaki di bawah
[Bah. IV-V, S. 15-17] subseksyen (1) seksyen 14, mahkamah boleh, ataş permohonan Ketua Pengarah, memerintahkan penjualan vesel tersebut dan pemakaian hasil penjualan untuk membayar denda dan kos dan perbelanjaan yang dikenakan.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
