Section 302
Exemption certificates.
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.
The owner or master of an Indian ship which is exempt from any
of the provisions of the construction rules or of this Act and the rules made thereunder relating to life
saving and fire appliances and radio telegraphy or radio telephony installation shall, on application to
the officer appointed in this behalf by the Central Government receive from such officer a certificate
in the prescribed form to be called an exemption certificate.