Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968

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Miscellaneous offences in relation to marks.

6.—Where a ship to which this Act applies, being a registered ship, is marked in accordance with any requirements as to marking imposed by or under this Act, then if—

(a) the owner or master of the ship fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship so marked, or

(b) any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or causes or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate, any mark with which the ship is so marked, except where he does so under the authority of a person empowered under the load line rules to authorise him in that behalf,

he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds.