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(1) If any ship, after detention or after service of any notice or order for such detention, proceeds to sea before it is released by the National Authority, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. (2) Whoever restrains or detains or forcibly takes to sea, any person authorised under this Act to detain or survey the ship, on the execution of his duty, the owner, master or agent of such ship shall each be liable to pay all expenses of, and incidental to, such person being so taken to sea and shall also be guilty of an offence under this Act.