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Merchant Shipping (Safety)
(1981 Ed.
Appointment of Government surveyors.
Powers and duties of Government surveyors.
Returns by Government surveyors.
Approval of organizations to survey ships and issue certificates.
(a) no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from its intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstances that neither the master nor the owner of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and
(b) every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or other territory for whose international relations a government is responsible or for which the United Nations are the administering authority shall be deemed to be a separate country.
5. (1) The Secretary for Economic Services may appoint persons to be Government surveyors for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Persons appointed as Government surveyors may be appointed as ship surveyors, nautical surveyors, engineer surveyors or radio surveyors, or in more than one of such capacities.
6. (1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Ordinance has been complied with, a Government surveyor may at all reasonable times go on board a ship and inspect the ship and its equipment or any part thereof, any articles on board, and any document carried in the ship in pursuance of this Ordinance, the Merchant Shipping Acts or rules or regulations made thereunder.
(2) In making an inspection under this section, a Government surveyor shall have all the powers conferred by section 115.
(3) A Government surveyor may inspect any ship under this section notwithstanding that it may be exempt from any provision of this Ordinance.
7. (1) A Government surveyor shall make such returns to the Director as he may require with respect to the build, dimensions, draught, cubic capacity, speed, fuel capacity, and the nature and particulars of machinery and equipment, and specifying the number of the certificated officers and seamen of ships surveyed by him.
(2) The owner, master and engineer of any ship so surveyed shall, on demand, give to the surveyor all such information and assistance within his power as he may require for the purpose of a return under subsection (1).
(3) Any owner, master or engineer who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a demand under subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
8. (1) The Secretary for Economic Services may approve any organization for the purposes of surveying ships and issuing certificates under this Part.