Chapter:	313	Title:	SHIPPING AND PORT CONTROL ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	16A	Heading:	Power to give directions generally	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) Without prejudice to the generality of section 16, the Director may, by notice in the Gazette, give to an owner or his agent or to a master of, or other person who appears to the Director to be in control over, any vessel belonging to a class, type or description of vessel specified in the notice such directions as he thinks fit in respect of any matter in relation to which the Director may give directions under that section.
(2) A notice under subsection (1) which has not been repealed, or which has not expired, on or before the effluxion of the period of 6 months immediately following the day on which it is published in the Gazette shall expire on the day immediately following that period.
(3) It is hereby declared that a notice under subsection (1)-

(a) is subsidiary legislation;
(b) may be in the same terms as another notice under that subsection where that first-mentioned notice is to come into operation upon or after the expiration of that second-mentioned notice.