Section 343:
Exemption of ships from certain provisions of this Part.
(1) Nothing in this Part--
(a) prohibiting a ship from proceeding to sea unless there are in force in relation to the ship,
or are produced the appropriate certificates issued under this Part or the appropriate safety
convention certificates;
(b) requiring information about a ship's stability to be carried on board,
shall, unless in the case of information about a ship's stability the Central Government otherwise
orders, apply to any troopship, pleasure yacht or fishing vessel or to 1[any cargo ship of less than three
hundred tons gross] or to any ship not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion.
(2) Nothing in the preceding sub-section shall affect the exemption conferred by any other
provision of this Act.
(3) Nothing in this Part shall apply to any ship other than an Indian ship while it is within any port
in India if it would not have been within such port but for stress of weather or any other circumstance
that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer, if any, of the ship could have prevented or
forestalled.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 29, for "any ship of less than five hundred tons gross other than a passenger ship"
(w.e.f. 28-5-1966).