Section 114: Load Line Regulations

114. Load Line Regulations The Minister may make regulations, referred to in this Act as “the Load Line Regulations”, to give effect to the 1966 Convention and to provide for— (a) surveys, and periodical inspections of ships to which this SubPart applies; (b) determining the freeboards to be assigned to such ships including timber freeboards and the conditions for such assignment; (c) determining, in relation to any such ship, the deck which is to be taken to be the freeboard deck of the ship, and requiring the position of that deck to be indicated on each side of the ship by a mark of a prescribed description; (d) determining, by reference to that mark and the freeboards assigned to any such ship, the positions in which each side of the ship is to be marked with lines of a prescribed description, indicating the various maximum depths to which the ship may be loaded in prescribed circumstances; (e) the determination and assignment of load lines to Mauritius ships to which the 1966 Convention does not apply; (f) the requirements with respect to the carriage of cargo in any uncovered space on the deck of a ship; (g) determining the period during which a certificate issued under this Sub-Part is to remain in force; M62 – 57 [Issue 2] Merchant Shipping Act (h) determining the period during which an exemption order under section 115 shall remain in force; and (i) the issue and recognition of certificates, including exemption certificates.