Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 234), article 298

298. (1) A sea-going passenger ship shall have her compasses properly adjusted from time to time to the satisfaction of a su rveyor of ships. (2) A passenger ship shall be provided with a safety valve on each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if the safety valve is in a ddition to the ordinary valve, so constructed as to have an area not le ss, and a pressure not greater, than the area of, and the pressure on, the ordinary valve. (3) If a ship plies or goes to sea, or attempts to ply or go to sea, from any port in Malta without being equipped as required by th is article, then for each matter in which default is made, the own er, or the master, or the bareboat charterer of the ship shall be liab le to a fine ( multa) not exceeding one hundred units. Placing of undue weight on safety valve.  Amended by:  XIII. 1983.5; XXII. 2000.2.