Section 115: Exemption orders
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115. Exemption orders
(1) Where, in the opinion of the Director, the sheltered nature and conditions of international voyages—
(a) between a Port and a near neighbouring port in another Convention State; or
(b) between near neighbouring ports in any 2 or more States or territories outside Mauritius,
make it unreasonable or impracticable to apply this Sub-Part to ships plying
on such voyages, and the Director is satisfied that the Government of the
other State concurs in that opinion, the Director may, by order specifying
those ports, direct that ships plying on international voyages between those
ports shall be exempt from this Sub-Part.
(2) The Director may, by order, direct that ships under 24 metres in
length engaged solely in the coasting trade, shall be exempt from this SubPart while not carrying cargo, or, if the order so provides, shall be exempt
from the Sub-Part whether carrying cargo or not.
(3) On the application of the owner of a Mauritius ship to which this SubPart applies which is either a pre-1966 Convention ship of not less than
150 gross tonnage or a post-1966 Convention ship of not less than 24 metres in length, the Director may exempt the ship where, in his opinion, the
ship embodies features of a novel kind such that, if the ship had to comply
with all the requirements of this Sub-Part and of the Load Line Regulations,
the development of those features and their incorporation in ships engaged
on international voyages might be seriously impeded.
(4) On the application of the owner of a Mauritius ship to which this SubPart applies which is—
(a) a pre-1966 Convention ship of less than 150 gross tonnage or a
post-1966 Convention ship of less than 24 metres in length; or
(b) a ship not falling within paragraph (a) which does not ply on international voyages,
the Director may exempt the ship.
(5) Without prejudice to subsection (4), where a Mauritius ship to which
this Sub-Part applies which is a pre-1966 Convention ship of not less than
150 gross tonnage or a post-1966 Convention ship of not less than 24 metres in length, does not normally ply on international voyages but is, in exceptional circumstances, required to undertake a single international voyage,
the Director may, on the application of the owner of the ships, exempt the
ship while engaged on that voyage.
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(6) Where the Director exempts a ship under subsection (3), (4) or (5), he
shall issue the appropriate certificate to the owner of the ship.
(7) For the purposes of subsection (6), the appropriate certificate—
(a) where the exemption is conferred under subsection (3) or (5), is
an International Load Line Exemption Certificate; or
(b) where the certificate is conferred under subsection (4), is a Mauritius Load Line Exemption Certificate.
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