Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968
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Valid Convention certificates. |
13.—(1) This section applies to any ship which, being a ship to which this Act applies and not being a registered ship— | |
(a) is registered in a Convention country or, not being registered in any such country or elsewhere, flies the flag of a Convention country, and | ||
(b) is either an existing ship of not less than one hundred and fifty tons gross tonnage or a new ship of not less than twenty-four metres in length. | ||
(2) The Minister may, at the request of the Government of the parent country of a ship to which this section applies, issue in respect of the ship a certificate in such form as may be prescribed by the load line rules, if the Minister is satisfied that he could properly issue a certificate in respect of the ship under section 7 (1) of this Act if the ship were a registered ship. | ||
(3) The load line rules shall make such provision as appears to the Minister to be appropriate for securing that certificates which are issued as International Load Line Certificates (1966) in respect of ships to which this section applies, and are so issued by Governments other than the Government, shall be recognised for the purposes of this Act in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the rules. | ||
(4) Certificates issued as mentioned in subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section shall be included among the certificates known as “International Load Line Certificates (1966)”. | ||
(5) In this Act “valid Convention certificate” means a certificate which either— | ||
(a) has been issued under subsection (2) of this section and is for the time being in force, or | ||
(b) having been issued as mentioned in subsection (3) of this section, is produced in circumstances in which it is required by the load line rules to be recognised for the purposes of this Act. |