Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2241

      The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


1998 No. 2241

MERCHANT SHIPPING

SAFETY

The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998

  Made 8th September 1998 
  Laid before Parliament 21st September 1998 
  Coming into force 12th October 1998 


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS


PART 1

General
1. Citation and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Repeals and revocations
4. Application
5. Exemptions
6. General compliance

PART II

Surveys and Certificates
7. Assignment of freeboards
8. Initial and periodical surveys and inspections
9. Issue of appropriate certificates
10. Duration and extension of certificates
11. Cancellation of certificates
12. Issue of exemption certificates
13. Publication of load line certificates and notification of draughts
14. Non-United Kingdom ships

PART III

Load Lines and Marks
15. Marking
16. Deck-line
17. Load line mark
18. Load lines
19. Timber load lines
20. Appropriate load line
21. Position of load lines
22. Method of marking
23. Authorisation of removal, etc., of appropriate marks
24. Mark of Assigning Authority

PART IV

Conditions of Assignment
25. Requirements relevant to the assignment of freeboards
26. Compliance with conditions of assignment
27. Record of particulars

PART V

Freeboards
28. Types of freeboard
29. Determination of freeboards
30. Greater than minimum freeboards
31. Special position of deck-line: correction of freeboard

PART VI

Stability
32. Information as to stability of ships
33. Information as to loading and ballasting of ships

PART VII

Equivalents, Penalties and Detention
34. Equivalents
35. Penalties
36. Offences and penalties in relation to certificates and surveys
37. Detention
 
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