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 306: Issue of certificates to foreign ships in India and Indian ships in foreign countries.
    (1) The Central Government may, at the request of the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies, cause an appropriate safety convention certificate to be issued in respect of a ship 1[registered or to be registered] in that country, if it is satisfied in like manner as in the case of an Indian ship that such certificate can properly be issued, and, where a certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so is issued.
     (2) The Central Government may request the Government of a country to which the Safety Convention applies, to issue an appropriate safety convention certificate 2[in respect of a ship registered or to be registered in India] and a certificate issued in pursuance of such a request and containing a statement that it has been so issued shall have effect for the purpose of this Act as if it had been issued by the Central Government.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 21, for "registered" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).
2. Subs. by s. 21, ibid., for "in respect of an Indian ship" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).
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