Section 353: Prohibition on proceeding to sea without certificates

353. Prohibition on proceeding to sea without certificates.—(1) No Pakistani ship shall proceed to sea, accept on voyages between ports or places situated within Pakistan, unless that ship holds appropriate valid certificates applicable to that ship issued under the provision of this chapter and any other certificates required under safety convention— (2) No Pakistani ship shall proceed on any voyage between ports or places situated within Pakistan unless there is in force in respect of the ship such certificate or certificates as may be prescribed being a certificate or certificates which by the terms thereof is or are applicable to the voyage on which the ship is about to proceed and to the trade in which she is for the time being engaged. (3) The master of every ship, to which this section applies, shall produce to the officer of Customs from whom a port clearance for the ship is sought the certificate or certificates required by the foregoing provisions of this section to be in force when the ship made under section 125 proceeds to sea, and port clearance shall not be granted and the ship may be detained until the said certificate or certificates are so produced. (4) Without prejudice to any other liability under this Ordinance of the master or owner of the ship, if any ship to which this section applies proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of any of the foregoing provisions of this section, the master or owner shall, for each offence, be punishable, in the case of a passenger ship, with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees and in the case of any other ship with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees. (5) Where an exemption certificate issued under section 347 in respect of any ship to which this section applies specifies any conditions on which the certificate is issued and any of those conditions is contravened, the master or owner of the ship shall, for each offence, be liable to a fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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