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be used in connection therewith are to be marked or affixed on the ship, whether 
by painting, cutting, or otherwise; (c) as to the mode of application for, and form 
of, certificates under this section; and (d) requiring the entry of those certificates 
and other particulars as to the draught of water and freeboard of the ship, in the 
official log book of the ship, or other publication thereof on board the ship, and 
requiring the delivery of copies of those entries. 
3. All such regulations shall, while in force, have effect as if enacted in this 
act, and if any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with any such 
regulation made with respect to the entry, publication or delivery of copies of 
certificates or other particulars as to the draught of water and freeboard of a ship, 
he shall for each offense be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds. 
4. Where in pursuance of the regulations any such certificate is required to 
be delivered, a statement in writing as to the disc and deck lines of a ship need 
not be inserted in the form of entry or transmitted or delivered to a chief officer of 
customs under the provisions hereinbefore contained. 
SEC. 444. Where the legislature of any British possession by any enactment 
provides for the fixing, marking, and certifying of load lines on ships registered in 
that possession, and it appears to Her Majesty the Queen that that enactment is 
based on the same principles as the provisions of this part of this act relating to 
load lines, and is equally effective for ascertaining and determining the maximum 
load lines to which those ships can be safely loaded in salt water, and for giving 
notice of the load line to persons interested, Her Majesty in Council may declare 
that any load line fixed and marked and any certificate given in pursuance of that 
enactment shall, with respect to ships so registered, have the same effect as if it 
had been fixed, marked or given in pursuance of this part of this act. 
SEC. 445. (1) Where the Board of Trade certify that the laws and regulations 
for the time being in force in any foreign country and relating to overloading and 
improper loading are equally effective with the provisions of this act relating thereto, 
Her Majesty in Council may direct that on proof of a ship of that country having 
complied with those laws and regulations, she shall not, when in a port of the 
United Kingdom, be liable to detention for non-compliance with the said provisions 
of this act, nor shall there arise any liability to any fine or penalty which would 
otherwise arise for non-compliance with those provisions. 
2. Provided that this section shall not apply in the case of ships of any foreign 
country in which it appears to Her Majesty that corresponding provisions are not 
extended to British ships. 
