Section 313: Submersion of load Lines of foreign ships

The provisions of section 309 of this Act shall apply to foreign ships while they are in Nigerian waters as they apply to Nigerian ships, subject to the following-
(a)
no Load Line Convention ship shall be detained, and no proceedings shall be taken against the owner or master thereof, by virtue of that section, except after an inspection by a surveyor as provided for in this part of this Act;
(b)
the expression "the appropriate load line" means-
(i) in the case where a valid Load Line Convention certificate in respect of the ship is produced on such an inspection as mentioned in paragraph (a) of this section, the load line appearing by the certificate to indicate the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being permitted under the Load Line Convention to be loaded,
(ii) in the case where a valid Load Line Convention certificate is not so produced, the load line which corresponds with the load line indicating the maximum depth to which the ship is for the time being permitted in accordance with the Load Line Regulations to be loaded.