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 283: Countries to which Load Line Convention or Safety Convention applies.
    1***The Central Government, if satisfied,--
         (a) that the Government of any country has accepted or denounced the Load Line Convention or, as the case may be, the Safety Convention; or
         (b) that the Load Line Convention or, as the case may be, the Safety Convention extends, or has ceased to extend to any territory;
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make a declaration to that effect.
        2*                            *                            *                            *                            *
Notes:
1. The brackets and figure "(1)" omitted by Act 25 of 1970, s. 3 (w.e.f.21-7-1968).
2. Omitted by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 21-7-1968).
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