Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act, 1968

Duration and termination of exemptions and duration, endorsement and cancellation of exemption certificates.

22.—(1) The load line rules shall make provision for determining the period during which any exemption conferred under section 20 of this Act, or any certificate issued under section 21 of this Act, is to remain in force, including—

(a) provision enabling the period for which any such exemption or certificate is originally conferred or issued to be extended within such limits and in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the rules, and

(b) provision for terminating any such exemption, and for cancelling any such certificate, in such circumstances as may be so prescribed.

(2) While any such certificate is in force in respect of a ship, there shall be endorsed on the certificate such information relating to—

(a) periodical inspections of the ship in accordance with the load line rules, and

(b) any extension of the period for which the certificate was issued,

as may be prescribed by the rules.