Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968
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Ships not to proceed to sea without load line certificate. |
10.—(1) Subject to any exemption conferred by or under this Act, no ship to which this Act applies, being a registered ship, shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea unless the appropriate certificate is in force in respect of the ship. | |
(2) Before any such ship proceeds to sea, the master of the ship shall produce the appropriate certificate to the officer of customs from whom a clearance for the ship is demanded; and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the appropriate certificate is so produced. | ||
(3) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section, the master of the ship 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. | ||
(4) In this section “the appropriate certificate” means the certificate which is the appropriate certificate for the purposes of section 7 of this Act. |