Singapore legislation

Section 137

of Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Section 137

General limits

Amended by56/200456/200456/2004

(1)

In the application of Article 6 of the Convention —

(a)

to a ship licensed as a harbour craft under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996, that Article has effect as if the aggregate of the amounts in paragraph 1(a)(i) and (b)(i) referred to the sum insured under the policy of insurance for the time being required by the Port Master under that Act to be in force in relation to that harbour craft in respect of third party risks; and

(b)

to any other ship with a tonnage less than 300 tons, that Article has effect as if —

(i)

paragraph 1(a)(i) referred to 166,667 Units of Account; and

(ii)

paragraph 1(b)(i) referred to 83,333 Units of Account.

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(2)

For the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention and subsection (1)(b), a ship’s tonnage is its gross tonnage calculated in such manner as may be prescribed by an order made by the Minister.

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(3)

Any order under this section must, so far as appears to the Minister to be practicable, give effect to the regulations in Annex I of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969.

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