Section 284:
Construction rules.
(1) The Central Government may make rules (in this Act called the
construction rules), prescribing the requirements that the hull, equipment and machinery of Indian
1[passenger or cargo ships] shall comply with.
(2) The rules made under sub-section (1) shall include such requirements as appear to the Central
Government to implement the provisions of the Safety Convention prescribing the requirements that
the hull, equipment and machinery of 1[passenger or cargo ships] shall comply with, except so far as
those provisions are implemented by the rules for life saving appliances, the radio rules, the rules for
direction finders or the collision regulations
.
2[Provided that different requirements may be specified for special trade passenger ships]
(3) The powers conferred on the Central Government by this section shall be in addition to the
powers conferred by any other provision enabling it to prescribe the requirements that 3[passenger or
cargo ships] shall comply with.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 7, for "passenger ships" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).
2. Ins. by Act 69 of 1976, s. 21 (w.e.f. 1-12-1976).
3. Subs. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 7, for "passenger ships" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).