Cap. 234 Art. 298General equipment of passenger ships. 

(1) A sea-going passenger ship shall have her compasses properly adjusted from time to time to the satisfaction of a surveyor of ships.

(2) A passenger ship shall be provided with a safety valve on each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if the safety valve is in addition to the ordinary valve, so constructed as to have an area not less, and a pressure not greater, than the area of, and the pressure on, the ordinary valve.

(3) If a ship plies or goes to sea, or attempts to ply or go to sea, from any port in Malta without being equipped as required by this article, then for each matter in which default is made, the owner, or the master, or the bareboat charterer of the ship shall be liable to a fine (multa) not exceeding one hundred units.