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1981 Ed.]

Merchant Shipping (Safety)

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50. Where a ship registered in Hong Kong is marked in accordance with any requirements as to marking imposed by or under this Part, then if-

(a) the owner or master of the ship fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship so marked; or

(b) any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or causes or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate, any mark with which the ship is so marked, except where he does so under the authority of a person empowered under the load line regulations to authorize him in that behalf;

he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000.

51. (1) Where a ship registered in Hong Kong has been surveyed and marked in accordance with the load line regulations, an International Load Line Certificate (1966) shall be issued to the owner, agent or master of the ship on his application.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), any certificate required by subsection (1) of this section to be issued-

(a) shall be issued by the Director, and

(b) shall be in such form, and shall be issued in such manner, as may be prescribed by the load line regulations.

(3) The Director may request a Contracting Government to issue an International Load Line Certificate (1966) in respect of any ship to which this Part applies which is a ship registered in Hong Kong; and the following provisions of this Part shall have effect in relation to such a certificate so issued, which contains a statement that it has been issued at the request of the Government of Hong Kong, as they have effect in relation to any International Load Line Certificate (1966) issued by the Director.

52. Where a certificate, issued in pursuance of section 51 and for the time being in force, is produced in respect of the ship to which the certificate relates-

(a) the ship shall be deemed to have been surveyed in accordance with the load line regulations; and

(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 regulations, and the positions of those lines so marked correspond 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 regulations.

53. While any certificate issued under section 51 is in force in respect of a ship, there shall be endorsed on the certificate such information relating to-

Miscellaneous

offences in relation to marks.

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Issue of load line certificate.

Effect of load line certificate.

Endorsement of load line certificates.