Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2241

The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998

(The document as of February, 2008)

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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