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Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 293

Title: Radio Log

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) Every ship compulsorily equipped under the provisions of section 291 with a radio telegraph or radio telephone installation shall maintain in the radio telegraph or radio telephone room a radio log in which shall be entered such particulars relating to the operation of the radio telegraph or radio telephone installation and as to the maintenance of the radio telegraph or radio telephone service as may be prescribed. (2) The provisions of section 215 shall apply to the radio log kept under this section as if it were an official log.

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....in 1867, 1882andagain in 1893and 1896 but all these attempts failed owing to legal and constitutional difficulties.Two of the principal contributory factors were the then limited powers of the Indian Legislature to legislate regarding shipping and the fact that part of the British Statute law on the subject, including parts of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which is the principal United-Kingdom enactment on the subject, applied to Indian and any Indian enactment had to be in legal harmony with that law. A fresh attempt was made in 1921-22 to codify the Indian law on merchant shipping by the Statute Law Revision Committee, which decided that only consolidation, and not revision should be attempted immediately. The result was the Indian Merchant Shipping Act, 1923, which is now on the Statute Book and which consolidated some 21 existing Indian Acts on the subject. This Act has also been amended from time to time, the two major amendments being those made in 1933 and in 1953 so as to take power to implement the provisions of the international conventions with respect to load lines, 1930, and with respect to safety of life at sea, 1948, respectively, which have been ratified by.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part IX

Title: Safety

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....by the wilful default of the person in charge of the ship or the sailing vessel, as the case may be, at the time unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the regulations necessary. Section 287 - Inspectors of lights and shapes and fog and distress signals (1) The Central Government may appoint persons to inspect in any port ships or sailing vessels to which the collision regulations apply, for the purpose of seeing that such ships or sailing vessels arc properly provided with lights and shapes and with the means of making fog and distress signals, in pursuance of such regulations. (2) If an inspector appointed under sub-section (1) finds that any ship or sailing vessel is not so provided, he shall give to the owner, master or tindal, notice in writing pointing out the deficiency, and also what, in his opinion, is requisite in order to remedy the same. (3) Every notice so given shall be communicated in the prescribed manner to the customs collector at any port from which such slip or sailing vessel may seek to clear; and no customs collector to whom such communication is made shall grant such ship a.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

Title: Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

State: Central

Year: 1958

Preamble1 - MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1958 Part I Section1 - Short title and commencement Section2 - Application of Act Section3 - Definition PartII - NATIONAL SHIPPING BOARD Section4 - Establishment of National Shipping Board Section5 - Functions of National Shipping Board Section6 - Power to make rule in respect of matters in this Part Part III Section7 - Director-General of Shipping Section8 - Mercantile Marine Department Section9 - Surveyors Section10 - Radio inspectors Section11 - Shipping offices Section12 - Seamen's employment offices Section13 - Seamen's welfare officers PartIV - SHIPPING DEVELOPMENT FUND Section14 - [Omitted] Section15 - [Omitted] Section16 - [Omitted] Section17 - [Omitted] Section18 - [Omitted] Section19 - [Omitted] PartV - REGISTRATION OF INDIAN SHIPS Section20 - Application of Part Section21 - Indian ships Section22 - Obligation to register Section23 - Ports of registry Section24 - Registrars of Indian ships Section25 - Register book Section26 - Application for registry Section27 - Survey and measurement of ships before registry Section28 - Marking of ship Section29 - Declaration of ownership on registry Section30 -.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 296

Title: Power to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....be maintained, the form of the radio log and the particulars to be entered therein, and the number, grades and qualifications of certified operators to be carried; 2 [(aa) the nature of radio telegraph installation to be provided on motor life-boats and survival craft.] (b) the manner in which a notice given under section 294 shall be communicated to the customs collector. (c) the charging of fees for the grant of the certificate referred to in sub-section (3) of section 294, the amount of such fees and the manner in which they shall be recoverable. ________________________ 1. For Merchant Shipping (Radio Direction Finders) Rules, 1968, see Gaz. of Ind., 13-7-1968, Part. II, Section 3(i), p. 1585. Merchant Shipping (Direction Finders) Rules, 1958 superseded. 2. Inserted by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966),Section 12 (28-5-1966).

Merchant Shipping (Radio Direction Finders) Rules, 1968 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1968

.....used, (a) for any purpose other than the business of the ship or (b) for keeping the radio watch required by the rules framed under Sec. 296 of the Act. Rule 12 Calibration (1) The Master of every ship shall cause the radio directionfinder to be calibrated in accordance with this rule as soon as practicable after it has been installed in the ship and whenever any change is made in the position of the radio-direction-finder aerial system. (2) The radio direction-finder shall be calibrated by two persons the one being experienced in the taking of radio bearings and the other experienced in the taking of visual bearings. The calibration shall be carried out by taking simultaneous radio and visual bearings of a calibrating transmitter, and such bearings shall be taken at intervals of not greater than 5 degrees throughout 360 degrees on a frequency between 285 Kc/s and 315 Kc/s. (3) Calibration tables and curves shall be prepared on the basis of the bearings taken in accordance with sub-rule (2). (4) The Master of every ship shall cause the calibration tables and curves prepared in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this rule to be verified by means of check-bearings .....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 301

Title: Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate and Qualified Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate Etc

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....shall, if the Central Government or any person authorised by it in this behalf is satisfied that the ship complies with all the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder relating to radio installation applicable to such ship, receive- (a) in the case of a ship of three hundred tons gross or more, a certificate in the prescribed form to be called a cargo ship safety radio certificate; (b) in the case of a ship of three hundred tons gross or more but less than three thousand tons gross performing voyages only between ports or places in India, a certificate in the prescribed form to be called a qualified cargo ship safety radio certificate; and (c) in other cases, a certificate in the prescribed form to be called a cargo ship radio certificate.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by The Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2002 (63 Of 2002). Prior to substitution it read as under: 301. Radio telegraphy and telephony certificates The power or master of any Indian cargo ship, which is required by the provisions of section 291 to be provided with a radio telegraphy or radio telephony installation shall, if the Central Government is satisfied that the ship.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 294

Title: Powers of Radio Inspectors

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....and also pointing out what in his opinion is requisite to remedy the same. (3) Every notice given under sub-section (2) shall be communicated in the prescribed manner to the customs collector of any port at which the ship may seek to obtain port clearance who shall order that the ship shall be detained until a certificate under the hand of a radio inspector is produced to the effect that the ship is properly provided with a radio telegraph or radio telephone installation and certified operators 1 [* * *] in conformity with this Part. ________________________ 1. Words and watches' omitted by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966), Section 11 (28-5-1966).

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 291

Title: Radio Requirements

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....more shall be subject to the condition that she shall have on board a radiotelephone installation : Provided further that no exemption shall be granted under this section, if it will have an adverse effect on the general efficiency of the distress service for the safety of ships.] ________________________ 1. Substituted for former sub-section (1) by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966), Section 9(a) (28-5-1966). 2. Substituted for the words "any other ship of sixteen hundred tons gross or more shall be a radio telegraph installation; and that required to be provided for a ship of less than sixteen hundred tons gross, other than a passenger ship", by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966), Section 9(a) (28-5-1966).Section 9(b) (28-5-1966). 3. Inserted, by the Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1966 (21 of 1966), Section 9(a) (28-5-1966).Section 9(b) (28-5-1966).Section 9(c) (28-5-1966).

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 212

Title: Official Logs to Be Kept and to Be Dated

State: Central

Year: 1958

(1) An official log shall be kept in the prescribed form in every Indian ship except a home-trade ship of less than two hundred tons gross. (2) The official log may, at the discretion of the master or owner, be kept distinct from or united with the ordinary ship's log so that in all cases the spaces in the official long book be duly filled up.