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 324: Certificate of Load Line Convention ships other than Indian ships to be produced to customs.
    The master of every ship other than an Indian ship being a ship of one hundred and fifty tons gross or more carrying cargo or passengers, and belonging to a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, shall produce to the Customs Collector from whom a port clearance for the ship from any port of India is demanded--
         (a) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of a voyage to a port outside India, a valid international load line certificate;
         (b) in a case where port clearance is demanded in respect of any other voyage, either a valid international load line certificate or a valid Indian load line certificate;
and the port clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until the certificate required by this section is so produced.
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