CANADA SHIPPING ACT

Load Line Exemption Order

SI/81-105

• Short Title
• Exemption
• SCHEDULE
• Established by

ORDER EXEMPTING CERTAIN SHIPS FROM THE

PROVISIONS OF PART VIII OF THE CANADA

SHIPPING ACT RELATING TO LOAD LINES

Short Title

1. This Order may be cited as the Load Line Exemption Order.

Exemption

2. This Order exempts from the provisions of Part VIII of the Canada Shipping Act relating to load lines

(a) ships registered in Canada or the United States plying on the international voyages described in Part I of the schedule; and

(b) ships plying on the voyages described in Part II of the schedule.

SCHEDULE

(s. 2)

PART I

International voyages wholly within

(a) the waters of Puget Sound in the State of Washington;

(b) the waters lying between Vancouver Island and the mainland and east of a line drawn from a point 1 nautical mile west of the city limits of Port Angeles in the State of Washington to Race Rocks on Vancouver Island and of a line drawn from Hope Island, British Columbia, to Cape Calvert, Calvert Island, British Columbia;

(c) the waters lying east of a line drawn from Cape Calvert to Duke Point on Duke Island in the State of Alaska;

(d) the waters lying north of Duke Island and east of Prince of Wales Island, Baranof Island and Chicagof Island, all in the State of Alaska;

(e) the waters of Peril, Neva and Olga Straits as far south as Sitka in the State of Alaska; and

(f) the waters lying east of a line drawn from Port Althorp on Chicagof Island to Cape Spencer, in the State of Alaska.

PART II

1. A home-trade voyage, Class IV.

2. A voyage on the sea coasts of Canada, that, in the opinion of the Board, is comparable to a home-trade voyage Class IV.

3. A minor waters voyage, Class II.

Established by the CONSOLIDATED REGULATIONS OF CANADA, 1978.

amended by

SI/81-105 22 July, 1981 pursuant to subsection 414(3) of the Canada Shipping Act

Revoked and replaced.