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Section 11

Direction of the port officer in respect of vessels carrying petroleum

of Petroleum (Safety Measures) Act 1984

ActIn forceProvision 12 of 51
Section 11
(1)

Any vessel having petroleum as cargo, whether it is intended to be unloaded or discharged or transhipped or is merely passing

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through a port or has been loaded in the port shall, on being so ordered by the port officer, proceed to such anchorage as the port officer directs within or without the limits of such port.

(2)

In default of compliance with any such order, the master of such ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit.