Singapore legislation
Section 233
Section 233
Submersion of subdivision load lines
(1)
Where —
a passenger ship is within any port or place in Singapore and has been marked with subdivision load lines in accordance with any regulations made under this Act or any law of any country made for the purpose of giving effect to the Safety Convention or the Load Lines Convention, that is to say, load lines indicating the depth to which the ship may be loaded having regard to the extent to which she is subdivided and to the space for the time being allotted to passengers; and
the appropriate subdivision load line, that is to say, the subdivision load line appropriate to the space for the time being allotted to passengers on the ship, is lower than the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being entitled under the load line provisions to be loaded,the ship shall not be so loaded as to submerge in salt water the appropriate subdivision load line on each side of the ship when the ship has no list.
(2)
If a ship referred to in subsection (1) is loaded in contravention of this section, the owner or master of the ship shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and to such additional fine, not exceeding the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (3), as the court thinks fit to impose, having regard to the extent to which the earning capacity of the ship was or would have been increased by reason of the contravention.
(3)
The additional fine shall not exceed $2,000 for every 25 millimetres or part thereof by which the appropriate subdivision load line on each side of the ship was submerged, or would have been submerged if the ship had had no list.
(4)
Without prejudice to any proceedings under subsections (1), (2) and (3), a ship which is loaded in contravention of this section may be detained by the Director until the ship ceases to be so loaded.[253