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 321: Issue to load line certificates to foreign ships in India and Indian ships in foreign countries.
    1[(1)] The Central Government may, at the request of a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, issue an international load line certificate in respect of a ship 2[registered or to be registered] in that country if it is satisfied in like manner as in the case of an Indian ship that it can properly issue the certificate and where the certificate is issued at such a request, it shall contain a statement that it has been so issued.
     3[(2) The Central Government shall, as soon as may be, after the issue of a certificate in respect of a ship under sub-section (1), forward to the Government at whose request such certificate was issued a copy each of the certificate, the survey report used in computing the free, board of the ship and of the computations.]
Notes:
1. Section 321 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 25 of 1970, s.10 (w.e.f. 21-7-1968).
2. Subs. by s. 10, ibid., for the word "registered" (w.e.f. 21-7-1968).
3. Ins. by s. 10, ibid. (w.e.f. 21-7-1968).
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