Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968

Issue of exemption certificates.

21.—(1) Where the Minister exempts a ship under the last preceding section, he shall issue the appropriate certificate to the owner of the ship.

(2) For the purposes of this section the appropriate certificate—

(a) where the exemption is conferred under subsection (2) or subsection (4) of the last preceding section, is a certificate which shall be called an International Load Line Exemption Certificate, and

(b) where the certificate is conferred under subsection (3) of that section, is a certificate which shall be called an Irish load line exemption certificate.

(3) Any certificate issued under this section shall be in such form, and shall be issued in such manner, as may be prescribed by the load line rules.