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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 21,
1938.
793
he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
46. A Government ship surveyor or engineer surveyor may Inspection inspect any British load line ship registered in Hong Kong for the of ships purpose of seeing that the provisions of this Part of this Act have with respect to load line. been complied with in the case of the ship.
Certificates.
47.-(1) Where a British load line ship registered in Hong Kong Issue of has been surveyed and marked in accordance with the foregoing load line provisions of this Part of this Act and complies with the conditions certificates of assignment to the extent required in her case by those provisions, thereof. there shall be issued to the owner of the ship on his application and on payment of the fee prescribed therefor by the Governor-
(a) in the case of an international load line ship, a load line certificate hereafter in this Act referred to as “a Load Line Convention certificate"; and
(b) in the case of a local load line ship, a load line certificate hereafter in this Act referred to as a Hong Kong load line certificate.'
(2) Every such certificate shall be issued either by the Governor or by such other person as may be authorised by him in that behalf, and shall be issued in such form and manner as may be prescribed by the load line rules.
(3) Any such certificate issued by the Governor may be signed on behalf of the Governor by any person authorised by him for the purpose, and a certificate purporting to be so signed shall be admissible in evidence.
(4) The Governor may request the Government of a country to which the Load Line Convention applies to issue a Load Line Convention certificate in respect of a Load Line Convention ship registered in Hong Kong, and a certificate issued in pursuance of such a request and containing a statement that it has been so issued shall have effect for the purpose of this Part of this Act as if it had been issued by the Governor.
(5) Where a load line certificate, issued in pursuance of this section and for the time being in force, is produced in respect of a ship, the ship shall, for the purpose of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, be deemed to have been surveyed as required by those provisions, and, if the deck-line and load lines on the ship are of the number and description required by the load line rules and the position of the deck-line and load lines corresponds with the position specified in the certificate, the ship shall be deemed to be marked as required by those provisions.
and effect
48.-(1) Every load line certificate issued by or under the Duration, authority of the Governor shall, unless it is renewed in accordance renewal and with the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, expire at the end cancellation of such period, not exceeding five years from the date of its issue, as ficates. may be specified therein.
(2) Any such load line certificate may, after a survey not less effective than the survey required by the load line rules before the issue of the certificate, be renewed from time to time by the Governor, or by any person authorised by him to issue a load line certificate, for such period (not exceeding five years on any occasion) as the Governor or other person renewing the certificate thinks fit.
(3) The Governor shall cancel any such load line certificate in force in respect of a ship, if he has reason to believe that--
(a) material alterations have taken place in the hull or super- structures of the ship which affect the position of the load lines; or
(b) the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports or the means of access to the crew's quarters have not been maintained on the ship in as effective a con- dition as they were in when the certificate was issued.
(4) The owner of every ship in respect of which any such certificate has been issued shall, so long as the certificate remains
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