1981 Ed.]
Merchant Shipping (Safety)
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60. Subject to any exemption conferred by or under this Part, before a ship to which section 57 applies proceeds to sea from Hong Kong on an international voyage, the master of the ship shall produce a valid Convention certificate to the Director; and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such a certificate is so produced.
61. (1) Subject to this section, a Government surveyor may inspect any ship not registered in Hong Kong while the ship is within the waters of Hong Kong and for the purposes of any such inspection he shall have all the powers conferred by section 115.
(2) Any such Government surveyor may go on board any ship to which section 57 applies, while the ship is within the waters of Hong Kong, for the purpose of demanding production of any International Load Line Certificate (1966) for the time being in force in respect of the ship.
(3) If on any such demand a valid Convention certificate is produced to the surveyor in respect of the ship, the powers of the surveyor under subsection (1) shall be limited to seeing that-
(a) the ship is not loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate;
(b) lines are marked on the ship in the positions of the load lines specified in the certificate;
(c) no material alterations have taken place in the hull or superstructures of the ship which affect the position in which any of those lines ought to be marked; and
(d) the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports and the means of access to the crew's quarters have been maintained on the ship in as effective a condition as they were in when the certificate was issued.
(4) If on an inspection of a ship under this section the ship is found to have been so materially altered in respect of the matters referred to in paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) of subsection (3) that the ship is manifestly unfit to proceed to sea without danger to human life, then--
(a) if the ship is a British ship, it shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of section 67; or
(b) if the ship is a foreign ship, section 72 shall have effect in relation to the ship as if it were unsafe for the purposes of that section.
(5) Where a ship is detained under the provisions applied under subsection (4), the Director shall order the ship to be released as soon as he is satisfied that the ship is fit to proceed to sea without danger to human life.
Production of certificate to Director.
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Provisions as to inspection.