1981 Ed.]
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(c) in the case of any ship, the appliances and equipment are not examined in any such period as may be prescribed, the master shall enter a statement or keep some other record of the reasons why the drill was not practised or the appliances and equipment were not examined in that week, month or period.
(2) The master shall, if so required by an officer of the Marine Department, produce for inspection any such entry or record.
(3) If a master fails to comply with any requirement of this section, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(4) Subject to section 46, this section applies to- (a) any ship registered in Hong Kong; and
(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.
46. Sections 43 and 44 shall apply to all ships not registered in Hong Kong while within the waters of Hong Kong to the same extent as they apply to ships registered in Hong Kong:
Provided that such sections and section 45 shall not apply-
(a) to any Convention ship which carries an accepted Convention certificate; or
(b) to any other foreign ship by reason of its being within the waters of Hong Kong if it would not have been within such waters but for stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the master nor the owner of the ship could have prevented or forestalled.
PART IV
LOAD LINES
Preliminary
47. (1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires- "alteration" includes deterioration;
"conditions of assignment" means such provisions relating to the assignment of freeboards as are contained in the load line regulations;
"Contracting Government" means any such government as is referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of “Convention country";
"Convention country" means a country or territory which is—
(a) a country the government of which has been declared by Her Majesty by Order in Council made under section 31 of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 to have accepted or acceded to the Convention of 1966, and has not been so declared to have denounced that Convention; or
Application to foreign ships.
Interpretation.
(1967, c. 27.)