140 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR FREEBOARD. 
APPENDIX III. 
EXTRACTS FROM BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1906 RELATING TO LoaD LINES. 
I. Sections 437 to 443 of the principal act (which relate to load line) except 
subsections 3 and 4 of section 440, shall, after the appointed day, apply to all 
foreign ships while they are within any port in the United Kingdom, as they apply 
to British ships without prejudice :— 
(a) To the power of His Majesty previously to apply those provisions to the 
ships of any foreign country, if the government of that country so desire, 
under section 734 of the principal act; and 
(6) To any direction of His Majesty in Council given under section 445 of 
the principal act in the case of ships of any foreign country in which the 
regulations in force relating to overloading and improper loading are 
equally effective with the provisions of the principal act. 
2. Section 462 of the principal act (which relates to the detention of foreign 
ships) 
(1) Shall apply in the case of a ship which is unsafe by reason of the defective 
condition of her hull, equipment, or machinery, and accordingly that 
section shall be construed as if the words ‘“‘by reason of the defective con- 
dition of her hull, equipments, or machinery, or” were inserted before the 
words ““by reason of overloading or improper loading’”’; and 
(2) Shall apply with respect to any foreign ships being at any port in the United 
Kingdom, whether those ships take on board any cargo at that port or not. 
7. The exemption of ships under 80 tons register employed solely in the coasting 
trade under sections 437 and 438 of the principal act (which relate to the marking 
of deck lines and load lines) shall cease so far as respects steamships :— 
Provided that the Board of Trade may except from the provisions of this 
section any class of steamships, so long as they do not carry cargo, and the provi- 
sions of this section shall not apply to any steamship belonging to any class so 
excepted. 
8. (1) Section 440 of the principal act (which relates to the time for marking 
load lines) shall apply to all British foreign-going ships, and, so far as it is applied 
by this act of foreign ships, to all foreign foreign-going ships, whether the owner is 
required to enter the ship outwards or not. 
(2) In the case of a ship which the owner is not required to enter outwards 
(a) The disc indicating the load line shall be marked before clearance for the 
ship is demanded; 
(6) The master shall prepare a statement similar to that required to be inserted 
in the form of entry under subsection (2) of the said section 440, and in 
the case of a British ship shall enter a copy of the statement in the agree- 
