Requirement to provide information

(1) IMMARBE may, by notice in writing served on the owner, charterer, manager or master of any Belize ship, require that person to provide IMMARBE with such information specified in the notice as IMMARBE may require in connection with the exercise by IMMARBE of its functions under this Part. (2) A notice under subregulation (1) above shall specify a date before which the information required by the notice is to be furnished to IMMARBE. (3) Any such notice may also require the person on whom it is served, after he has furnished to IMMARBE the information required by the notice, to inform IMMARBE if at any time the information previously furnished to IMMARBE, including any information furnished in pursuance of a requirement imposed by virtue of this subregulation, is rendered inaccurate by any change of circumstances including the taking of any further measures for the purposes of this Part or the alteration or discontinuance of any measures already being taken. (4) In so far as such a notice requires further information to be furnished to IMMARBE in accordance with subregulation (3) above, IMMARBE shall require that information to be furnished to it before the end of such period as is specified in the notice for the purposes of this subregulation. (5) A notice served on a person under subregulation (1) above may at any time– (a) be revoked by a notice in writing served on him by IMMARBE; or (b) be varied by a further notice under subregulation (1) of this regulation. Merchant Ships (Registration) 258 (6) Any person who– (a) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him by a notice under this regulation; or (b) in furnishing any information so required, makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, shall be guilty of an offence.