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 344: Power to make rules respecting certificates under this Part.
    (1) The Central Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Part relating to certificates granted under this Part.
     (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may prescribe--
         1[(a) the form of any certificate and record of equipment issued under this Part;
        (aa) the manner of surveys required to be made in respect of ships to which the manner of surveys specified in the Safety Convention is not applicable;]
        (b) the circumstances in which a certificate purporting to have been issued outside India in accordance with the provisions of the Safety Convention or the Load Line Convention shall be recognised in India;
         (c) the fees to be charged in respect of any certificate issued under this Part and the manner in which such fees may be recovered.
         2[(d) the fees to be charged for the survey or inspection of hull, machinery, boilers, electrical appliances and other fittings and the materials used for their construction, fire appliances, life-saving appliances, radio communications equipment, radar, echo sounding device and gyro compass, or testing or approval of any of the foregoing equipments or materials used for their manufacture, or examination of plans of construction of any part of ships' hull, machinery, electrical appliances and other equipment aforesaid and the manner in which such fees may be recovered.]
Notes:
11 Subs. by Act 63 of 2002, s.15, for clause (a) (w.e.f. 1-2-2003).
2. Ins. by Act 12 of 1983, s. 9 (w.e.f. 18-5-1983).
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