The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998

PART IV CONDITIONS OF ASSIGNMENT

Requirements relevant to the assignment of freeboards

25.  Freeboards assigned under these Regulations shall comply with the requirements applicable to the ship of Schedule 2 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1701(M).

Compliance with conditions of assignment

26.—(1) Except as otherwise provided for in paragraph (2), a ship will cease to comply with the conditions of assignment—

(a) if at any time after the assignment of freeboards there has been any alteration of the hull, superstructures, fittings or appliances of the ship such that—

(i) a requirement applicable to the ship under regulation 25 is not complied with; or

(ii) it differs in a material respect from the record of particulars provided in accordance with regulation 27; or

(b) if the record of particulars is not on board in accordance with regulation 27(2).

(2) A ship shall be taken to comply with the conditions of assignment notwithstanding an alteration referred to in paragraph (1)(a) if—

(a) amended freeboards appropriate to the condition of the ship have been assigned, the ship has been marked with these load lines and a new certificate issued to the owner of the ship accordingly; or

(b) the alteration has been inspected by a surveyor on behalf of the Assigning Authority and that Authority is satisfied that the alteration is not such as to require any change in the freeboards assigned to the ship, and full particulars of the alteration together with the date and place of his inspection have been endorsed by the surveyor on the record referred to in regulation 27(1).

Record of particulars

27.—(1) The record of particulars shall be provided on the ship in a form given in Schedule 3 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1701(M).

(2) The record shall be furnished by the Assigning Authority and be retained on board at all times.