Section 324
Certificate of Load Line Convention ships other than Indian ships to be produced to customs.
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 master of every ship other than an Indian ship being a ship of one hundred and fifty
tons gross or more carrying cargo or passengers, and belonging to a country to which the Load Line
Convention applies, shall produce to the Customs Collector from whom a port clearance for the ship
from any port of India is demanded--
(a) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of a voyage to a port outside India, a valid international load line certificate;
(b) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of any other voyage, either a valid international load line certificate or a valid Indian load line certificate;
and the port clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the certificate required by this section is so produced.
(a) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of a voyage to a port outside India, a valid international load line certificate;
(b) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of any other voyage, either a valid international load line certificate or a valid Indian load line certificate;
and the port clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the certificate required by this section is so produced.