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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Chapter V : Safety of Ships and Life at Sea

Part I : Construction of ships, provision of life-saving appliances and installation of radio

191. Surveyor's report on inspection under safety regulations

 

(1) Every surveyor who inspects a vessel in pursuance of section one hundred and ninety or any provision of the construction regulations, the life-saving equipment regulations, the radio regulations, the collision regulations, or any other applicable regulations which may have been made, shall draw up a report of his inspection in the prescribed form.

[Section 191(1) substituted by section 9 of Act No. 13 of 1965]

 

(2) The report shall contain full and clear statements as to the extent to which, in the case of an inspection of a ship referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of subsection (2) of the said section, the vessel is constructed and equipped in accordance with the regulations referred to in those paragraphs, respectively, and as to all matters on which the form indicates that a report is required.

 

(3) The surveyor shall forward the report to the proper officer.