SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3
General Provisions
United Kingdom ships

Compliance with load line rules

Miscellaneous offences in relation to marks
5
Where a United Kingdom ship to which this Schedule applies is marked in accordance with any requirements as to marking imposed by or under this Schedule, then if—
a
the owner or master of the ship fails without reasonable excuse to keep the ship so marked, or
b
any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or causes or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate, any mark with which the ship is so marked, except where he does so under the authority of a person empowered under the load line rules to authorise him for that purpose,
he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
Sch. 3 (para 1-31) repealed (12.10.1998) by 1998/2441, art. 3(1)(d)