Act Number: 44

Act Name: The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-10-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 212: Official logs to be kept and to be dated.
    (1) An official log shall be kept in the prescribed form in every Indian ship except a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross.
     (2) The official log may, at the discretion of the master or owner, be kept distinct from or united with the ordinary ship's log so that in all cases the spaces in the official long book be duly filled up.
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