1964_MERCHANT_SHIPPING_(SAFETY)_ORDINANCE — Page 37

36

CAP. 369)

Merchant Shipping (Safety)

[1981 Ed.

Power to exempt.

Issue of exemption certificates.

LN262/85.

Endorsement of exemption certificates.

Subdivision load lines.

Exemptions

62. (1) The Director may exempt any ship or class of ships from this Part or the load line regulations if he is satisfied that the sheltered nature and conditions of voyages undertaken by such ships. make it unreasonable or impracticable to apply this Part or the load line regulations.

(2) The Director may exempt any ship which embodies fea- tures of a novel kind from any of the provisions of this Part or the load line regulations the application of which may seriously impede research into the development of such features and their incorpora- tion in ships engaged on international voyages.

(3) The Director may, in relation to a ship which does not normally ply on international voyages but is, in exceptional circum- stances, required to undertake a single international voyage, exempt the ship from this Part and the load line regulations while the ship is engaged on that voyage; but no exemption shall be conferred unless the Director is satisfied that the ship complies with such safety requirements as are, in his opinion, adequate for the voyage which is to be undertaken by the ship.

(4) Any exemption conferred under this section may be con- ferred subject to such conditions as the Director thinks fit; and where any such exemption is conferred subject to conditions, the exemption shall not have effect unless those conditions are complied with.

63. (1) Where the Director exempts a ship under section 62 he shall issued an International Load Line Exemption Certificate to the owner or master of the ship.

(2) Any certificate issued under this section shall be in such form, and shall be issued in such manner, as may be prescribed by the load line regulations.

64. While any certificate issued under section 63 is in force in respect of a ship, there shall be endorsed on the certificate such information relating to-

(a) periodical inspections of the ship in accordance with the

load line regulations; and

(b) any extension of the period for which the certificate was

issued,

as may be prescribed by the regulations.

Subdivision load lines

65. (1) Where in pursuance of the passenger ship construc- tion regulations a passenger ship registered in Hong Kong is marked with subdivision load lines, and the lowest of those lines is lower than the line which, apart from this subsection, would be the

鼍