Chapter:	548	Title:	MERCHANT SHIPPING (LOCAL VESSELS) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:	L.N. 282 of 2006
Section:	14	Heading:	Offences in relation to carrying of passengers	Version Date:	02/01/2007

(1) No unlicensed local vessel shall carry any passenger.
(2) No licensed vessel shall carry any passenger unless the conditions of its operating licence permit the carriage of passengers.
(3) No licensed vessel shall carry more passengers and crew than may lawfully be carried under the conditions of its operating licence.
(4) If without reasonable excuse subsection (1) or (2) is contravened, the owner of the vessel, his agent and the coxswain commit an offence and each of them is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years, and to an additional fine at level 2 in respect of each passenger carried on the vessel in contravention of that subsection.
(5) If without reasonable excuse subsection (3) is contravened, the owner of the vessel, his agent and the coxswain commit an offence and each of them is liable on conviction to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 1 year, and to an additional fine at level 1 in respect of each person carried in excess of the number that may lawfully be carried.