229. Alterations in ships subsequent to grant of certificate of survey, and additional surveys-- (1) The owner, agent or master of a ship in respect of which a certificate of survey granted under this Part is in force, shall, as soon as possible after any alteration is made in the ship’s hull, equipment or machinery which affects the efficiency thereof of the seaworthiness of the ship, give written notice to such person as the Central Government may direct containing full particulars of the alteration.

(2) If the Central Government has reason to believe that since the making of the last declaration of survey in respect of a ship--

(a) any such alteration as aforesaid has been made in the hull, equipment or machinery of the ship; or (b) the hull, equipment or machinery of the ship have sustained any injury or are otherwise insufficient;

the central Government may require the ship to be again surveyed to such extent as it may thin fit, and, if such requirement is not cimplied with, may cancel any certificate of survey issued under this Part in respect of the said ship.

230. Power to require delivery of expired or cancelled certificate of survey--

Every certificate of survey granted under this Part which has expired, or has been cancelled or suspended, shall be delivered to such person as the Central Government may direct.

231. Certificate of survey to be affixed in conspicuous part of ship-- The owner or master of every ship for which a certificate of survey has been granted under this Part shall forthwith, on the receipt of the certificate, cause one of the duplicates thereof to be affixed, and kept affixed so long as the certificate remains in force and the ship is in use on some conspicuous part of the ship where it may be easily read by all persons on board thereof.

232. Ship not to carry passengers in contravention of Act-- (1) No ship or any voyage shall carry or attempt to carry passengers in contravention of section 220 or shall have on board or in an part thereof a number of passnegers which is greater than the number set forth in the certificate of survey as the number of passengers which the ship or the part thereof is fit to carry on that voyage. (2) If the master or any other officer of any ship which carries or attempts to carry passengers in contravention of section 220 is a licensed pilot, he shall be liable to have his licence as a pilot cancelled or suspended for such period as the Central Government may, by order, specify.

Keeping order in passenger ships

233. Offences in connection with passenger ships-- (1) If, in the case of a ship for which a certificate of survey has been granted under this Part--

(a) any person being drunk or disorderly has been on that account refused admission therto by the owner or any person in his employ and, after having the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship;

(b) any person being drunk or disorderly on board the ship is requested by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the ship at any place in India at which he can conveniently do so, and after having the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, does not comply with the request;

(c) any person on board the ship after warning by the master or other officer thereof, molests or continues to molest any passenger;

(d) any person having gone on board the ship at any place and being requested, on account of the ship being full, by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the ship, before it has departed from that place, and having had the amount of his fare (if he has paid it) returned or tendered to him, does not comply with that request;

(e) any person travels or attempts to travel in the ship without first paying his fare and with intent to avoid payment thereof;

(f) any person on arriving in the ship at the place for which he has paid his fare knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to quit the ship;

(g) any person on board the ship fails when requested by the master or other officer thereof either to pay his fare or to exhibit such ticket or other reciept, if any, showing the payment of his fare as is usually given to persons travelling by and paying fare for the ship he shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section.

(2) No person on board any such ship shall wilfully do or cause to be done anything in such a manner as to obstruct or injure any part of the machinery or tackle of the ship or to obstruct, impede or molest the crew or any of them in the navigation or management of the ship or otherwise in the execution of their duty on or about the ship.

(3) The master or other officer of any such ship and all persons called by him to his assistance may, without warrant, detain any person who commits any offence under this section and whose name and address are unknown to the master or officer and convey the offender with all convenient despatch before the [nearest Judical Magistrate of the first class or the Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be,] to be dealt with according to law.

234. Power to exclude drunken passengers from passenger ships-- The master of any passenger ship may refuse to receive on board thereof any person who by reason of drunkenness or otherwise is in such a state or misconducts himself in such a manner as to cause annoyance or injury to passengers on board; and if any such person is on board, may put him on shore at any convenient place; and a person so refused admittance or put on shore shall not be entitled to the return of any fare he has paid.

235. Ships with certificates of survey or certificates of partial survey granted outside India-- (1) When a ship requires to be furnished with a certificate of survey under this Part and the Central Government is satisfied--

(a) by the production of a certificate of survey that the ship has been officially surveyed at a port in a country outside India;

(b) that the requirements of this Act are proved by that survey to have been substantially complied with; and (c) that certificates of survey granted under this Part are accepted in such country in lieu of the corresponding certificates required under the laws in force in that country;

the Central Government may, if it thinks fit, dispense with any further survey of the ship in respect of the requirements so complied with, and give a certificate which shall have the same effect as a certificate given after survey under this Part. (2) When the Central Government has, by notification in the Official Gazette, declared that it is satisfied that an official survey at a port in a country outside India specified in the declaration in such as to prove that the requirements of this Act have been substantially complied with, any person authorised by the Central Government in this behalf may exercise the power to dispense with a survey and to give a certificate conferred on the Central Government by sub-section (1) in the case of any ship furnished with a valid certificate of survey granted at such port.

(3) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall be applicable in the case of ships furnished with valid certificates of partial survey including docking certificates, as if they were furnished with like certificates granted at ports in countries outside India subject to the modification that the powers of the Central Government under the said sub-section may be exercised by any person authorised by the Central Government in this behalf.

236. Power to make rules as to surveys-- (1) The Central Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to regulate the making of surveys under this Part and the provisions to be made for the safety of life at sea.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--

(a) the times and places at which, and the manner in which, surveys are to be made;

(b) the requirements as to construction, machinery, equipment and marking of sub-division load lines, which are to be fulfilled by ships generally or by any class of ships in particular before a declaration of survey may be granted;

(c) the survey of ships by two or more surveyors;

(d) the duties of the surveyor making a survey and, where two or more sruveyors are employed, the respective duties of each of the surveyors employed;

(e) the form in which declarations of survey and certificates of survey under this Part are to be made and the nature of the particulars to be stated therein respectively;

(f) the rates according to which the fees payable in respect of surveys are to be calculated in the case of all or any of the ports of survey;

(g) the closing of, and keeping closed, the openings in ship’s hulls and in water-tight bulk-heads;

(h) the securing of, and keeping in place and the inspection of contrivances for closing any such openings as aforesaid;

(I) the operation of mechanisms of contrivances for closing any such openings as aforesaid and the drills in connection with the operation thereof; and

(j) the entries to be made in the official log book or other record to be kept of any of the matters aforesaid.