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lowd line rules,
(3) The load line rules shall make such provision as appears to the Governor to be appropriate for securing that certificates which are issued as International Load Line Certificates (1966) in respect of ships to which this section applies, and are so issued by Governments other than the Government of Hong Kong, shall be recognized for the purposes of this Act in such circumstances as may be prescribed by the rules.
(4) Certificates issued as mentioned in subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section shall be included among the certificates to be called "International Load Line Certificates (1966)".
(5) In this Act “valid Convention certificate" means a certificate which either
(x)
has been issued under subsection (2) of this section and is for the time being in force, or
(b) having been issued as mentioned in subsection (3) of this section, is produced in circumstances in which it is required by the load line rules to be recognized for the purposes of this Act.
13. (1) Subject to the next following subsection, and to any exemption conferred by or under this Act, no ship to which this Act applica, not being a ship registered in Hong Kong, shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea from any port of the Colony unless--
(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line rules;
(b) the ship is marked with a deck-line and with load lines in accord-
ance with those rules;
(c) the ship complies with the conditions of assignment; and
to the information required by those rules to be provided as men- tioned in section 2(4) of this Act is provided for the guidance of the master of the ship in the manner determined in accordance with the rules.
(2) The preceding subsection does not apply to a ship in respect of which a valid Convention certificate is produced.
(3) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contraven- tion of the preceding provisions of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars.
(4) Any ship which in contravention of this section attempts to proceed to sea without being surveyed and marked as mentioned in paragraphs (6) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section may be delajoed until she has been so surveyed and marked.
(5) If any such ship as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, not being a ship in respect of which a valid Convention certificate is produced, does not comply with the conditions of assignment, then-
(a) if the ship is a British ship, she shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of section 45 of the Merchant Shipping Ordin- ance(a), or
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(b) if the ship is a foreign ship, section dỡ of that Ordinance shall have effect in relation to the ship as if she were unsafe by reason of one of the matters specified in that section.
14. (1) Where a ship to which this Act applies, not being a ship registered in Hong Kong, is within any port of the Colony, and is marked with load lines, the ship shall not be so loaded that-
(a) if the ship is in salt water and bas no list, the appropriate load
line on each side of the ship is submerged, or
(b) in any other case, the appropriate load line on each side of the ship would be submerged if the ship were in salt water and bad no list.
(2) Subsections (2), (3), (5) and (5) of section 4 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if any reference in those sub- sections to subsection (1) of that section, or to paragraph (a) or paragraph (8) of the said subsection (1), were a reference to subsection (1), or (as the case may be) to the corresponding paragraph of subsection (1), of this section:
Provided that, in the case of a ship to which section 12 of this Act applies, the ship shall not be detained, and no proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this subsection, unless the ship has been inspected by a surveyor of ships in pursuance of section 17 of this Act.
(3) Th relation to a ship in respect of which a valid Convention certificate is produced, "load line" in subsection (1) of this section means a line marked on the ship in the position of a load line specified in that certificate; and for the purposes of the application of the relevant provi- sions to such a ship in any circumstances for which a particular load Ene is specified in the certificate, the "appropriate load line" means the load line which, in accordance with the certificate, indicates the maximum depth to which the ship may be loaded in salt water in those circumstances.
(4) Where a valid Convention certificate is not produced in respect of a ship, then, for the purposes of the application of the relevant provi- sious to that ship in any circumstances prescribed by the load line rules in accordance with section 2(2)ch) of this Act, "the appropriate load line" means the load line which, in accordance with those rules, indicates the maximum depth to which the ship may be loaded in salt water in those circumstances.
(5) In subsections (3) and (4) of this section "the relevant provisions" means the provisions of subsection (1) of this section and any provisions of section 4 of this Act as applied by subsection (2) of this section.
15. (1) Where a ship to which this Act applies, not being a ship registered in Hong Kong, has been surveyed and marked in accordance with the load line rules, then on the application of the owner of the ship a Hong Kong load line certificate shall be issued to him by the Governor
or by a person authorized in thai behalf by the Governor.
(2) Subject to the next following subsection, the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of this Act shall have effect in relation to a certificate issued under the preceding subsection as they have effect in relation to a certificate issued under section 6 of this Act
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