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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 83] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1983/PHALGUNA 20, 1904

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation

MINISTRY OF SHIPPING & TRANSPORT

(Shipping Wing)

CORRIGENDUM

New Delhi, the 11th March, 1983

(MERCHANT SHIPPING)

G.S.R. 261(E) In the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Rules. 1982 published with the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Shipping and Transport (shipping Wing) No. GSR 769(B) dated 21-12-82 at pages 1—80 of the Gazette of India Part II Section 3 Sub-section (i) Extra- ordinary dated 21-12-1982, at page 40 in the English version thereof, in the fourth paragraph of the Preamable, after the words "The Central Government hereby makes the following rules namely : insert the following :- -

'Rules'1. Short title, commencement and application.—(1) These rules may be called the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Rules, 1982, 1443 GI/82 (1)

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

(3) They shall apply to—

(a) All seE.-goiiiH Indian ships and all sea-going Indian Sailing vessels including fishing vessels and fishing beats fitted with mechanical means of propulsion; and

(b) AH sta-goins ships and sea-going sailing vessels including fishing vessels and fishing boats other than those uader Indian flai, ships other than Indian ships while they are at any port or place in India or within the territorial waters of India ;

Provided that these rules shall not apply to any ship or sailing vessel including a iishing vessel or a fishing boat by reason of its being at u port or place in India or within the territorial waters of India if it would not have been at imy such port or place but for the stress of weather or any other circumstances that neither the master, tjnclel, skipper nor the owner, nor the charterer, if any, of the snip sailing vessel, fishing vessel or fishing boat could have prevented or forestalled.

?. Definitions.-—In these rules, .unless the conlext otherwise requires—

(a) ' Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958);

(b) "Approved" means approved by the C:ntral Government;

(c I "Buoyant apparatus" mean* floatation equipment other than a life- buoy or a life Jacket designed to support a hpecifled number of persons who are in the water and of such construction (hat ii ic- tains its shape and properties.