Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 254

254. Where a ship to which the load line provisions of this Act apply, being a ship registered under this Act, is marked in accordance with any requirements as to marking imposed by or under the load line provisio ns of this Act, then if - (a) the owner or master fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship so marked; or (b) any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates, or causes or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, al ter, deface or obliterate, any mark with which the ship is so marked, except M E R C H A N T S H I P P I N G [CAP. 234. 125 where he does so under the authority of a person empowered under the load line rules to authorise him in that behalf, he shall be liable to a fine ( multa) not exceeding tw o hundred units. Issue of load line certificate.