Interference with ships and boats without consent
46 Interference with ships and boats without consent
A person who, without lawful authority to do so, and knowing that no such lawful authority exists, casts away or uses any boat or uses any equipment or article in, upon, or forming part of a boat is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $5 000 or imprisonment for 1 year.
Upon convicting a person for an offence against this section, the court may order the convicted person to pay to the owner of the boat, equipment or article in respect of which the offence was committed such sum as the court thinks just by way of compensation for the loss caused to the owner by the convicted person.
In this section—
boat includes canoe, dinghy, yacht, raft, pontoon, ship and other similar vessel.
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