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Appendix IV
Extracts from the
M.S. (Load Lines) Rules, 1968
Part V GENERAL
Information as to stability of ships
30.-(1) The owner of any ship to which freeboards are assigned under these Rules shall provide for the guidance of the master of the ship information relating to the stability of the ship in accordance with the following provisions of this Rule.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (6) of this Rule, such information shall include particulars appropriate to the ship in respect of all matters speci®ed in Schedule 7 to these Rules and shall be in the form required by that Schedule.
(3) Subject to the following paragraph, the information shall, when ®rst supplied, be based on the determination of stability by means of an inclining test which shall unless the Board otherwise permits be carried out in the presence of a surveyor appointed by the Board. The information ®rst supplied shall be replaced by fresh information whenever its accuracy is materially affected by alteration of the ship. Such fresh information shall if the Board so require be based on a further inclining test.
(4) The Board may:
(a) in the case of any ship allow the information to be based on the
determination, by means of an inclining test, of the stability of a sister
ship;
(b) in the case of a ship specially designed for the carriage of liquids or
ore in bulk; or of any class of such ships, dispense with an inclining test if satis®ed from the information available in respect of similar ships that the ship's proportions and arrangements are such as to ensure more than suf®cient stability in all probable loading con- ditions.