Merchant Shipping Act
49. Offences
49. Offences
Where any person acts, or suffers any person under his control to act, in contravention of section 48, or omits to do, or suffers any person under his control to omit to do, anything required by that section, commits an offence, and for each such offence shall be liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment and, except in the case of an application being made under that section with respect to a foreign ship which not having at any previous time been registered as a Kenyan ship has become a Kenyan ship, the ship may be detained until there is compliance with that section.Source: Kenya Law