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 297: Signalling lamps.
    Every Indian ship exceeding one hundred and fifty tons gross shall, when proceeding to sea from any port or place in India to any port or place outside India, be provided with a 1[signalling lamp which shall not be solely dependent upon the ship's main source of electrical power and which shall be of the type approved]by the Central Government.
Notes:
1. Subs. by s. 13, ibid., for "signalling lamp of the type approved" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).
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