Section 114
Section 114
(1)
The Ministert'with the approval of His Majesty may make such regulations with regard to ships and voyages to which the Load Lines Convention applies and for the issue of certificates in accordance with the terms of the Load
Lines Convention (hereinafter referred to as "load line certificate") as appear to him to implement the provisions of the Load Line Convention.
Merchant Shipping
(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection
(1)
, such regulations may provide for-
(a)
the survey and periodical inspection of ships and the issue, supervision and cancellation of load line certificates;
(b)
the issue of an appropriate load line certi-ficate in Brunei in respect of a ship registered in another country and by the government of another country in respect of a registered Brunei ship;
(c)
the types and forms of such certificates;
(d)
determining freeboards to be assigned from time to time to ships;
(e)
determining, in relation to any ship, the deck which is to be taken to be the freeboard deck of the ship, and for requiring the position of that deck to be indicated on each side of the ship by a mark of a description prescribed by the regula-tions;
(f)
determining, by reference to that mark and the freeboards for the time being assigned to a ship, the positions in which each side of the ship is to be marked with lines of a description prescribed by the regulations, indicating the various max-imum depths to which the ship may be loaded in circumstances prescribed by the regulations;
(g)
such requirements in respect of the hulls, superstructures, fittings and appliances of ships to which the Load Lines Convention applies as are required by the regulations for the assignment of freeboards to ships; and
(h)
the supply of such information relating to the stability, loading and ballasting of any ship and 89
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(3)
Such regulations may -
(a)
prohibit any ship from proceeding on a voyage from any port or place in Brunei unless there is in force an appropriate load line certificate in respect of such ship;
(b)
may make different provision by reference to different descriptions of ships, different areas, different seasons of the year and any other cir-cumstances.