SCHEDULE 6Alteration of Penalties
PART VIMiscellaneous Penalties on Summary Conviction
Miscellaneous
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In subsection (2) of section 723 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (which provides that a person who fails to produce a log book or document which he is required to produce under that section or who refuses to allow the same to be inspected or copied or commits any other offence mentioned in that subsection shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £50 in some cases and £20 in others)—
(a)
for the words " or refuses to allow the same " there shall be substituted the words " that person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds and if any person on being so required refuses to allow such a book or document "; and
(b)
for the words from " for each offence " onwards there shall be substituted the words " be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds ".