Malaysia legislation
Section 180
Section 180
(2)
If a valid Load Line Convention certificate is produced to a government surveyor on any such demand, such surveyor’s powers of inspecting the ship with respect to load line shall be limited to seeing –
(a)
that the ship is not loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate;
(b)
that the position of the load lines on the ship corresponds with the position specified in the certificate;
(c)
that no material alterations have taken place in the hull or superstructures of the ship which affect the position of the load lines; and
(d)
that the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard rails, the freeing ports and the means of access to the crew’s quarters
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have been maintained on the ship in as effective a condition as they were in when the certificate was issued;
and, for the purpose of any such inspection, such surveyor shall have all the powers of an inspector under this Ordinance.
(3)
If it is found on any such inspection that the ship is loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate the ship may be detained and proceedings may be taken against the master or owner thereof under section 169.
(4)
If it is found on any such inspection that the load lines on the ship are not in the position specified in the certificate, the ship may be detained until the matter has been rectified to the satisfaction of a government surveyor.
(5)
If it is found on any such inspection that the ship has been so materially altered in respect of the matters referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (2) that the ship is manifestly unfit to proceed to sea without danger to human life, the ship shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purpose of sections 197 and 198 in the case of a British ship, or for the purpose of section 202 in the case of a foreign ship:
Provided that where the ship has been detained under either section 198 or 202 the Director shall order the ship to be released as soon as he is satisfied that the ship is fit to proceed to sea without danger to human life.
(6)
If a valid Load Line Convention certificate is not produced to a government surveyor on such demand as aforesaid, such surveyor shall have the same power of inspecting the ship, for the purpose of seeing that the provisions of this Chapter have been complied with, as if the ship were a North Borneo ship.
(7)
For the purposes of this section, a ship shall be deemed to be loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate if she is so loaded as to submerge in salt water, when the ship has no list, the load line appearing by the certificate to indicate the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the Load Line Convention to be loaded.
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Load line certificate of ships not registered in North Borneo.