Section 377: Submersion of load lines of ships other than Pakistani ships.––The provisions of

377. Submersion of load lines of ships other than Pakistani ships.––The provisions of sections 362, 363 and 364 shall apply to ships other than Pakistani ships, while they are within any port or place in Pakistan as they apply to Pakistani ships subject to the following modifications, namely:— (a) no ship carrying cargo or passengers and belonging to country to which the Load Line Convention applies, shall be detained and no proceedings shal be taken against the owner or master thereof, by virtue of the said sections except after an inspection by a surveyor as provided by section 374; and (b) the expression “the appropriate load line” in relation to any ship other than a Pakistani ship shall mean,— (i) in the case of a ship in respect of which there is produced on such an inspection as aforesaid a valid international load line certificate, 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; and (ii) in any other case, the load line which corresponds with the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the load line rules to be loaded, or, if no load line on the ship corresponds as aforesaid, the lowest load line thereon.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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