Singapore legislation
Section 235
Section 235
Inspection of ships not registered in Singapore
(1)
A surveyor of ships may go on board any ship, not being a Singapore ship, when within any port or place in Singapore, for the purpose of demanding the production of a load line certificate for the time being in force in respect of the ship.
(2)
If a valid load line certificate is produced to the surveyor on such demand, the surveyor’s powers of inspecting the ship shall be limited to seeing —
that the ship is not loaded beyond the limits allowed by the certificate;
that lines are marked on the ship in the positions of the load lines specified in the certificate;
that no material alterations have taken place in the hull or superstructures of the ship which affect the position in which any of those lines ought to be marked; and
that the fittings and appliances for the protection of openings, the guard-rails, the freeing ports and the means of access to the crew’s quarters are in as effective a condition as they were in when the certificate was issued.
(3)
If a valid load line certificate is not produced to the surveyor on such demand, the surveyor shall have the same power of inspecting the ship for the purpose of seeing that the load line provisions have been complied with, as if the ship were a Singapore ship.[255