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prevented or forestalled; and for the purposes of determining whether a voyage is an international voyage any colony, protectorate or other dependency, any territory for whose international relations a government is separately responsible and any territory for which the United Nations are the administering authority, shall be taken to be a separate territory.
(3) Any reference in this Part to the gross tonnage of a ship shall be construed as a reference to the tonnage of a ship ascertained in accordance with the tonnage regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Acts; and where in accordance with those regulations alternative tonnages are assigned to a ship, the gross tonnage of the ship shall, for the purposes of this Part be taken to be the larger of those tonnages.
(4) Any reference in this Part to any provision of the Convention of 1966 shall, in relation to any time after that provision has been amended in pursuance of Article 29 of that Convention, be construed as a reference to that provision as so amended.
Ships registered in Hong Kong
48. (1) Subject to any exemption conferred by or under this Ordinance, no ship registered in Hong Kong shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea unless-
(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line regulations;
(b) the ship is marked with a deck-line and with load lines in accordance with those regulations;
(c) the ship complies with the condition of assignment; and (d) the information required by those regulations to be provided for the guidance of the master of the ship has been so provided.
(2) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of subsection (1), the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.
(3) Any ship which in contravention of subsection (1) attempts to proceed to sea without being surveyed and marked as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection may be detained until it has been so surveyed and marked.
(4) Any such ship as is mentioned in subsection (1) which does not comply with the conditions of assignment shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of section 67.
49. (1) A ship registered in Hong Kong shall not be so loaded that its condition at any time is such that-
(a) if the ship is in salt water and has no list, the appropriate load line on each side of the ship is submerged; or
Compliance with load line regulations.
Submersion of load lines.
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prevented or forestalled; and for the purposes of determining whether a voyage is an international voyage any colony, protec- torate or other dependency, any territory for whose international relations a government is separately responsible and any territory for which the United Nations are the administering authority, shall be taken to be a separate territory.
(3) Any reference in this Part to the gross tonnage of a ship shall be construed as a reference to the tonnage of a ship ascertained in accordance with the tonnage regulations made under the Merchant Shipping Acts; and where in accordance with those regulations alternative tonnages are assigned to a ship, the gross tonnage of the ship shall, for the purposes of this Part be taken to be the larger of those tonnages.
(4) Any reference in this Part to any provision of the Conven- tion of 1966 shall, in relation to any time after that provision has been amended in pursuance of Article 29 of that Convention, be construed as a reference to that provision as so amended.
Ships registered in Hong Kong
48. (1) Subject to any exemption conferred by or under this Ordinance, no ship registered in Hong Kong shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea unless-
(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line
regulations;
(b) the ship is marked with a deck-line and with load lines in
accordance with those regulations;
(c) the ship complies with the condition of assignment; and (d) the information required by those regulations to be pro- vided for the guidance of the master of the ship has been so provided.
(2) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of subsection (1), the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.
(3) Any ship which in contravention of subsection (1) attempts to proceed to sea without being surveyed and marked as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection may be detained until it has been so surveyed and marked.
(4) Any such ship as is mentioned in subsection (1) which does not comply with the conditions of assignment shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of section 67.
49. (1) A ship registered in Hong Kong shall not be so loaded that its condition at any time is such that-
(a) if the ship is in salt water and has no list, the appropriate
load line on each side of the ship is submerged; or
Compliance with load line regulations.
Submersion of load lines.
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