Cap. 234 Art. 252Compliance with load line rules. 

(1) Subject to any exemption conferred by or under the load line provisions of this Act, no ship to which those provisions apply, being a ship registered under this Act, shall proceed to sea or attempt to proceed to sea unless -

(a) the ship has been surveyed in accordance with the load line rules;

(b) the ship is marked with a deck-line and with load lines in accordance with those rules;

(c) the ship complies with the conditions of assignment;

(d) the information required by those rules to be provided as mentioned in article 251(4) is provided for the guidance of the master of the ship in the manner determined in accordance with the rules.

(2) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of the preceding sub-article, the owner or master of the ship shall be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding two hundred units.

(3) Any ship which, in contravention of sub-article (1), attempts to proceed to sea without being surveyed and marked as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that sub-article may be detained until she has been so surveyed and marked.

(4) Any ship as is mentioned in sub-article (1) which does not comply with the conditions of assignment shall be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of article 280.