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indicating the load line, she shall be kept so marked until her next return to a 
port of discharge in the United Kingdom. 
SEc. 441. (1) Where a ship employed in the coasting trade is required to be 
marked with the disc indicating the load line, she shall be so marked before the 
ship proceeds to sea from any port; and the owner shall also, once in every twelve 
months, immediately before the ship proceeds to sea, transmit or deliver to the 
chief officer of customs of the port of registry of the ship a statement in writing 
of the distance in feet and inches between the center of the disc and the upper edge 
of each of the deck lines which is above that center. 
2. The owner, before the ship proceeds to sea after any renewal or alteration 
of the disc, shall transmit or deliver to the chief officer of customs of the port of 
registry of the ship notice in writing of that renewal or alteration, together with 
such statement in writing as before mentioned of the distance between the center 
of the disc and the upper edge of each of the deck lines. 
3. If default is made in transmitting or delivering any notice or statement 
under this section, the owner shall, for each offense, be liable to a fine not exceeding 
one hundred pounds. 
4. When a ship to which this section applies has been marked with a disc 
indicating the load line, she shall be kept so marked until notice is given of an 
alteration. 
SEC. 442. (1) If (a) any owner or master of a British ship fails without reason- 
able cause to cause his ship to be marked as by this part of this act required, or 
to keep her so marked, or allows the ship to be so loaded as to submerge in salt 
water the center of the disc indicating the load line; or (6) any person conceals, 
removes, alters, defaces, or obliterates, or suffers any person under his control 
to conceal, remove, alter, deface, or obliterate any of the said marks, except in the 
event of the particulars thereby denoted being lawfully altered, or except for the 
purpose of escaping capture by an enemy, he shall for each offense be liable to a 
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. 
2. If any mark required by this part of this act is in any respect inaccurate so 
as to be likely to mislead, the owner of the ship shall for each offense be liable to a 
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. 
SEC. 443. (1) The Board of Trade shall appoint the Committee of Lloyd’s 
Register of British and Foreign Shipping, or, at the option of the owner of the ship, 
any other corporation or association for the survey or registry of shipping approved 
by the Board of Trade, or any officer of the Board of Trade specially selected by 
the board for that purpose, to approve and certify on their behalf from time to time 
the position of any disc indicating the load line, and any alteration thereof, and 
may appoint fees to be taken in respect of any such approval or certificate. 
2. The Board of Trade may make regulations (a) determining the lines or 
marks to be used in connection with the disc, in order to indicate the maximum 
load line under different circumstances and at different seasons, and declaring at 
this part of this act is to have effect as if any such line were drawn through the 
center of the disc; (b) as to the mode in which the disc and the lines or marks to 
