Section 236

The Minister may make such regulations as seem to him necessary or expedient for the purpose of carrying out the load line provisions.(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may by such regulations provide for —

the survey and periodical inspection of ships and the issue of certificates;

the types and forms of certificates;

determining freeboards to be assigned from time to time to ships;

determining, in relation to any ship, the deck which is to be taken to be the freeboard deck of the ship, and for requiring the position of that deck to be indicated on each side of the ship by a mark of a description prescribed by the regulations;

determining, by reference to that mark and the freeboards for the time being assigned to a ship, the positions in which each side of the ship is to be marked with lines of a description prescribed by the regulations, indicating the various maximum depths to which the ship may be loaded in circumstances prescribed by the regulations; and

such requirements in respect of the hulls, superstructures, fittings and appliances of ships to which the load line provisions apply as appear to him to be relevant to the assignment of freeboards to ships.(3) Such regulations shall in the case of ships and voyages to which the Load Lines Convention applies include such requirements as appear to the Minister necessary to implement the provisions of the Load Lines Convention.(4) Every omission or neglect to comply with and every act done or attempted to be done contrary to the provisions of any regulations made under this section shall be an offence and in respect of any such offence the offender shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.[256