SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Load Lines

General Provisions

United Kingdom ships Compliance with load line rules

Effect of load line certificate

7

Where a certificate, issued in pursuance of paragraph 6 and for the time being in force, is produced in respect of the ship to which the certificate relates—

a

the ship shall be deemed to have been surveyed in accordance with the load line rules, and

b

if lines are marked on the ship corresponding in number and description to the deck-line and load lines as required by the load line rules, and the positions of those lines so marked correspond to the positions of the deck-line and load lines so specified in the certificate, the ship shall be deemed to be marked as required by those rules.