Section 71Penalty for failure to report casualty

s. 71

71. Penalty for failure to report casualty A person shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to Taka [ten thousand], or with both, if he, without sufficient cause, fails to report a shipping casualty to the officer in charge of a police station as required by sub-section (2) of section 44.

1. 87. The words “ten Thousand” were substituted for the words “two thousand” by section 32 of the Inland Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2005 (Act No. XIII of 2005)