D. 1899.]
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
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indicate the maximum load-line in salt water to which it shall be lawful to load the ship; and
(b.) the position of the disc shall be fixed in accordance with the Tables of Freeboard contained in Instructions to Surveyors issued by the Board of Trade.
Penalty omitted by Ord 9/09th.
case of
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British Colonial ship. See 7ford neglecting to mark lines.
(3.) Any owner or master of a British or Colonial ship (except ships under twenty-five tons, pleasure yachts, ships not trading or plying for hire, and ships employed solely as tugs), being within the waters of the Colony, who neglects to cause such ship to be marked with deck and load lines or to keep her so marked, or who allows such ship to be so loaded as to submerge in salt water the centre of the disc, and any person who conceals, removes, alters, defaces, or obliterates, or suffers any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface, or obliterate any of the said marks, except in the event of the particulars thereby denoted being lawfully altered or except for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy, shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
inaccurate
(4.) If any of the marks required by this section are in any respect inaccurate so as to be likely to mislead, the owner or master of the ship shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
load-line.
(5.) If a ship is so loaded as to submerge in salt water the centre of the disc indicating the load-line, the ship shall be deemed to be an unsafe ship within the meaning of the provisions contained in section 17, and such submersion shall be a reasonable and probable cause for the detention of the ship.
M. S. Act, 1894, s. 439.
(6.) The owner, agent, or master of a British or Colonial ship required to be marked with deck and load lines shall also, on clearing her, deliver to the Harbour Master a statement in writing of the distance in feet and inches between the centre of the disc and the upper edge of each of the lines indicating the position of the ship's decks which is above that centre. If default is made in delivering this statement in the case of any such ship, the Harbour Master may refuse to clear the ship.
disc
Delivery of written statement to Harbour Master.
(7.) The Governor may appoint the Government Marine Surveyor, or other person specially selected by him for that purpose, to approve and certify on his behalf from time to time the position of any disc indicating the load-line and any alteration thereof, and may appoint fees to be taken in respect of any such approval or certificate.
certify on behalf of Governor.
(8.) When a ship to which this section applies has been marked with a disc indicating the load-line, she shall be kept so marked until her next return to the Colony.
amidships.
(9.) In this section the expression "amidships" means the middle of the length of the load water-line as measured from the fore side of the stem to the aft side of the stern-post.
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