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INTERNATIONAL PROVISIONS OF
Recognition of Foreign Deck-line and Load-line Certificates,
Provision as to foreign ships with respect to load-lines.
[The 2nd proviso to s. 14 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, exempts ships of foreign countries from the provisions of the section which have been exempted
M. S. ACT, 1894, s. 445.-
445.-(1) Where the Board of Trade certify that the laws and regulations for the time being in force in any foreign country and relating to overloading and improper loading are equally effective with the provisions of this Act relating thereto, Her Majesty in Council may direct that on proof of a ship of that country having complied with those laws and regulations, she shall not, when in a port of the United Kingdom, be liable to detention for non-compliance with the said provisions of this Act, nor shall there arise any liability to any fine or penalty which would otherwise arise for non-compliance with those provisions.
(2) Provided that this section shall not apply in the case of ships of any foreign country in which it appears to Her Majesty that corresponding provisions are not extended to British ships.
ORDER IN COUNCIL [NETHERLANDS] 11TH JUNE, 1910.
AND WHEREAS the Board of Trade have certified that certain statutory regulations which have been approved by the Government of the Netherlands relating to overloading, so far as regards the assignment of load-lines to ships belonging to the Netherlands on and after the 1st January, 1909, are equally effective with the corresponding regulations in force in this country respecting the assignment of load-lines to British merchant ships:
Now, therefore, His Majesty in Council doth direct that on proof that ships belonging to the Netherlands have complied with the aforesaid regulations of the Government of the Netherlands, such ships shall not, when in ports of the United Kingdom, be liable to detention for non-compliance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts relating to over-loading, nor shall there arise any liability to any fine or penalty which would otherwise arise for non-compliance with those provisions.
"Proper loading" includes the marking of both deck-lines and load-lines :—ss. 436 to 443 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. As to Colonial load-line certificates recognised under s. 444, see post p. 239.