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Prohibition on sailing unscaworthy vessels.
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20.—(1) If a vessel, having regard to the nature of the service for which she is intended, goes out or attempts to go out to sea or into waters in such an unseaworthy state that the life of any person is likely to be or is endangered, then, the person in command or in charge, and the owner, of the vessel and any person sending her to sea, who knows or could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary care that the vessel is in such an unseaworthy state, is guilty of an offence.
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