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(b) if lines are marked on the ship corresponding in number and description to the deck-line and load lines as required by the load line rules, and the positions of those lines so marked comes pond to the positions of the deck-line and load lines as specified in the certificate, the ship shall be deemed to be marked as required by those rules.
(1) The load line rules shall make provision for determining the period during which any certificate issued under section 6 of this Act is to remain in force, including-
(a) provision enabling the period for which any such certificate is originally issued to be extended within such limits and in such clrcumstances as may be prescribed by the rules, and
(6) provision for cancelling any such certificate in such circumstances
as may be so prescribed.
(2) While any such certificate is in force in respect of a ship, there shall be endorsed on the certificate such information relating to-
(0) periodical inspections of the ship in accordance with the load
Lino rules, and
(6) any extension of the period for which the certificate was issued,
as may be prescribed by the rules.
9. (1) Subject to any exemption conferred by or under this Act, no ship to which this Act applies, being a ship registered in Hong Kong. shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea unless the appropriate certificate is in force in respect of the ship.
(2) Before any such abip proceeds to sea, the master of the ship shall produce the appropriate certificate to the Director of Maring or to any public officer authorized by the Director in that behalf from whom a clearance for the ship la demanded; and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the appropriate certificate is so produced.
(3) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of this section, the master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars.
(4) In this section "the appropriate certificate" means the certificate which is the appropriate certificate for the purposes of section 6 of this Act
16 (1) Where a certificate is įssued in respect of a ship under section 6 of this Act-
(a) the owner of the ship shall forthwith on receipt of the certificate cause it to be framed and posted up in some conspicuous placo on board the ship, and shall cause it to be kept so framed and posted up and legible so long as the certificate remains in force and the ship is in use, and
(b) the master of the ship. before making any other entry in any official log-book relating to the ship, shall enter in it the particulars as to the positions of the deck-line and the load lines which are specified in the certificate.
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(2) Before any ship to which this Act applies, being a ship registered
in Hong Kong, leaver any dock, wharf, harbour or other place for the purpose of proceeding to sea, the master of the ship-
(a) shall enter in the official log-book such particulars relating to the depth to which the ship is for the time being loaded as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Governor under this Act and
(6) subject to the next following subsection, shall cause a notice, in such form and containing such of those particulars as may be specified in the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph, to be posted up in some conspicuous place on board the ship;
and, where such a notice has been posted up, the master of the ship shall cause it to be kept sa posted up and legible until the ship arrivas St some other dock, wharf, harbour or place,
(3) The regulations may exempt ships trading within the river trada limits as defined in section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance(a) or any class of such ships specified in the regulations, from the requirement as to notices contained in the last preceding subsection.
(4) If the owner or master of a ship fails to comply with any require- ment imposed on him by the preceding provisions of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars.
11. (1) A surveyor of ships may inspect any ship to which this Act applies, being a ship registered in Hong Kong, for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of this Aot have been complied with in respect of the ship.
(2) For the purposes of any such inspection any such surveyor shall bave in Hong Kong all the powers which a Board of Trade inspector bas in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(b).
Ships not registered in Hong Kong.
12. (1) This section applies to any ship which, being a ship to which this Act applics and not being registered in Hong Kong-*-*
(a) is registered in a Convention country or, not being registered in any such country or elsewhero, flies the flag of a Convention country, and
(b) is either an existing ship of not less than 150 tons gross tonnaga
or a new ship of not less than 24 metres in length.
(2) The Governor may, at the request of the Government of the parent country of a ship to which this section apples, issue in respect of the ship a certificate in such form as may be prescribed by the load line rules, if the Governor is satisfied that he could properly issue a certificate in respect of the ship under section 6(1) of this Act If the ship Were registered in Hong Kong.
(0) LAW of Hong Kong. Revised Edilan 1967. Cap. 201. 007 1990 0, 60,
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