Section 264
Hospital accommodation.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
1[264. Hospital accommodation.--Every special trade passenger ship certified to carry
more than one hundred passengers on a voyage the duration of which, in ordinary
circumstances, may extend to forty-eight hours or more, shall provide on board a hospital
offering such conditions relating to security, space, health and sanitation and capable of
accommodating such proportion of the maximum number of passengers the ship is certified
to carry, as may be prescribed.]
Notes
1. Subs. by s. 16, ibid., for section 264 (w.e.f. 1-12-1976).