Clause 3

by inserting immediately before the definition of “buoys and beacons” appearing therein the following new definition: —“ “alteration” includes deterioration;”;

by inserting immediately after the definition of “Consular Officer” appearing therein the following new definition: —“ “country to which the Load Lines Convention applies” means —

a country the government of which has been declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to have accepted the Load Lines Convention, and has not been so declared to have denounced that Convention; and

a territory to which it has been so declared that the Load Lines Convention extends, not being a territory to which it has been so declared that the Convention has ceased to extend;”;

by inserting immediately after the definition of “lighthouse” appearing therein the following new definitions: —“ “load lines” means such lines as are referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 296 of this Ordinance;“Load Lines Convention” means the International Convention on Load Lines signed in London on the 5th day of April, 1966, and the regulations annexed thereto;”; and

by deleting the words “ship belonging to Her Majesty” appearing in the third line of the definition of “salvor” therein and substituting therefor the words “naval ship”.