Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 58

Compliance with load line regulations

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made-see 23 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Subject to subsection (2), and to any exemption conferred by or under this
Ordinance, no ship not being a ship registered in Hong Kong shall proceed, or
attempt to proceed, to sea from Hong Kong 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 conditions 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) Subsection (1) 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 contravention of
subsection (1) the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is
liable to a fine of $10000.

(4) Any ship which in contravention of this section attempts to proceed to sea
without being surveyed and marked as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b)
may be detained until it has been so surveyed and marked.

(5) If any such ship as is mentioned in subsection (1), 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, it shall be deemed to be unsafe for the
        purposes of section 67; or

   (b)  subject to paragraph (a), if the ship is a ship not registered in Hong
        Kong, section 72 shall have effect in relation to the ship as if it
        were unsafe for the purposes of that section. (Amended 23 of 1998 s.
        2)