Section 23

A permit may be granted in respect of one or more vessels or to one or more persons.

Any person to whom a permit is issued under this section shall from time to time supply to the authority such information as the authority may reasonably require relating to the nature and amount of the goods and cargo conveyed in accordance with such permit in any specified period, and for this purpose such person shall keep records thereof.

Any failure to supply the information or to keep the records required under subsection (3) shall be deemed to be a breach of the conditions of such permit.

The authority in its discretion may exempt from the requirements of this section any vessel or class of vessels of less than ten ton gross tonnage, and it may, at any time without assigning any reason therefor, terminate any such exemption.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect or modify Part

XIII of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952, with regard to the licensing of boats for the conveyance of cargo, and no permit shall be

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issued under this section in respect of any vessel required to be licensed under those provisions unless such vessel has been duly licensed thereunder.

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