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Anchors and Chain Cables Act 1967

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 3 Cited in Amendments 14 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1967 c. 64
Year1967
prescribe the manner in which tests of anchors and cables are to be carried out, the tensile strains and breaking strains to be employed in such tests and the requirements to be fulfilled by equipment used for the purposes of such tests;provide for the marking of anchors and cables which have passed such tests and for the issue of certificates in respect of such anchors and cables;provide for the supervision of such tests and marking, and for the inspection of such equipment, by surveyors of ships appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or by such other persons as the Board of Trade may authorise for the purpose;provide for the payment of fees in respect of such supervision and inspection and in respect of the issue of certificates under the rules; andprovide that the rules shall not apply to anchors or cables of such classes or descriptions as may be specified in the rules or which are exempted therefrom by the Board of Trade in accordance with any provision in that behalf contained in the rules.the anchor or cable has been marked, and a certificate in respect of it has been issued, in accordance with rules under this section; orthe anchor or cable is one to which those rules do not apply by virtue of any provision therein made under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section;(3) If any person applies to any anchor or cable which has not passed the tests prescribed by rules under this section any mark prescribed by those rules for denoting that it has passed those tests, or any other mark calculated to suggest that it has passed those tests, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding F2level 5 on the standard scale.(4) Section 684 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (jurisdiction) shall apply for the purposes

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