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Versions of s. 437(1)

S-9 — Canada Shipping Act · 1 version

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2003-01-01 to present available View Source

    Every person in whose possession and on whose premises is found any wreck discovered by a receiver of wrecks, on search by him under a search warrant granted in that behalf by a justice of the peace, who fails, on being summoned by two justices of the peace, to appear before them to prove to their satisfaction that he was lawfully entitled to the possession of the wreck is, in the case of a first failure, guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding eighty dollars and, in any other case, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.