405. Injury to lighthouses, etc.

Any person who wilfully or negligently -

(a) damages any lighthouse or the lights exhibited therein, or any buoy or beacon; or

(b) removes, alters, or destroys any lightship, buoy, or beacon; or

(c) rides by, makes fast to, or runs foul of any lightship, buoy or beacon;

406. Misconduct by person employed in lighthouses

Any person employed in a lighthouse, who wilfully or negligently omits to do any act proper and requisite to be done by him with respect to the lights or signals exhibited in a lighthouse, shall, if such omission is of a nature likely to cause danger to navigation, be liable upon conviction before a Sessions Court to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding two years.

407. Prevention of false lights

(1) Whenever any fire or light is burnt or exhibited at such place or in such manner as to be liable to be mistaken for a light proceeding from a lighthouse, the nearest Port Officer may serve a notice upon the owner of the place where the fire or light is burnt or exhibited, or on the person having the charge of the fire or light, directing that owner or person, within a reasonable time to be specified in the notice, to take effectual means for extinguishing or effectually screening the fire or light and for preventing for the future any similar fire or light.

(2) The notice may be served either personally or by delivery of the same at the place of abode of the person to be served, or by affixing the same in some conspicuous spot near to the fire or light to which the notice relates.

(3) Any owner or person, on whom a notice is served under this section, who fails without reasonable cause, to comply with the directions contained in the notice, shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

(4) If the owner or person on whom a notice under this section is served neglects for a period of two days to extinguish or effectually screen the fire or light mentioned in the notice, the nearest Port Officer may, by his servants or workmen, enter upon the place where the fire or light is, and forthwith extinguish the same, doing no unnecessary damage, and may recover the expenses incurred him in so doing from the owner or person on whom the notice has been served in the same manner as fines may be recovered under this Ordinance.