Section 405
Application of Part.
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.
This Part applies only to sea-going ships fitted with mechanical
means of propulsion of not less than one hundred and fifty tons gross, but the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, fix any lower tonnage for the purposes of this Part.