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Merchant Shipping (Safety)
[1981 Ed.
(1967, c. 27.)
(b) a territory to which it has been so declared that the Convention of 1966 extends, not being a territory to which it has been so declared that the Convention has ceased to extend;
"Convention of 1966” means the International Convention on Load Lines signed in London on 5 April 1966;
"deck-line" means such mark as may be prescribed which indicates on each side of a ship the position of the freeboard deck of that ship;
"existing ship" means any ship which is not a new ship;
"international voyage" means, subject to subsection (2), a voyage between-
(a) Hong Kong and a port outside Hong Kong; or
(b) a port in a country (other than Hong Kong) and a port in any other country or territory (whether a Convention country or not) which is outside Hong Kong;
"load lines" means such lines as may be prescribed which indicate on each side of a ship the various maximum depths to which the ship may be loaded in such circumstances as may be prescribed; "new ship" means a ship whose keel is laid, or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after-
(a) in relation to a ship whose parent country is a Convention country other than the United Kingdom, the date from which it is declared under section 31 of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967 either that the government of that country has accepted or acceded to the Convention of 1966 or that it is a territory to which that Convention extends;
(b) in relation to any other ship, 21 July 1968;
"parent country" means, in relation to a ship, the country or territory in which the ship is registered, or, if the ship is not registered anywhere, means the country or territory whose flag the ship flies;
"valid Convention certificate" means a certificate which-
(a) has been issued under section 57(2) and is for the time being in force; or
(b) is produced in circumstances in which it is required by the load line regulations to be recognized for the purposes of this Part.
(2) In determining, for the purposes of an international voyage, what are the ports between which a voyage is made, no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage which is due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstances which neither the master nor the owner of the ship could have