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Merchant Shipping Act (No. 52 of 1971) - Sect 321

General power to make regulations

321.
(1) Without prejudice to any other power to make regulations conferred upon him by this Act, the Minister may make regulations generally for carrying this Act into effect, and may by such regulations provide for-
(a) anything which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act;
(b) the fees to be charged for any services rendered or acts performed under this Act;
(c) the offences which and the officers by whom offences under this Act may be compounded;
(d) the admissibility in evidence and the exemption from stamp duty of documents and forms used under this Act;
(e) the control of ships within Ceylon waters, to the extent that no other provision has been made therefor by this Act or any other written law;
(f) the definition of home-trade and foreign trade limits, the classification of ships authorized to ply within such limits (whether in relation to their manning standards, general seaworthiness or otherwise), the regulation of traffic within any such limits, and the modification of any provisions of this Act in relation to any such ships;
(g) requiring the complement of a Ceylon ship, or of any ship trading in Ceylon waters, and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, to consist of citizens of Ceylon, in such proportion or percentage as may be so prescribed;
(h) prescribing the hours for the transaction of business by owners, masters and agents of ships at shipping offices at any port or ports within Ceylon;
(i) the enforcement of any international convention relating to the subject-matter of this Act and generally to all maritime matters:
(j) the implementation in whole or in part of any international convention relating to merchant shipping, or any matter incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
(k) extending to aircraft, with such modifications as may be prescribed, the provisions of this Act relating to salvage and wreck.
(2) Every regulation made by the Minister shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in the regulation.
(3) Every regulation made by the Minister shall, as soon as convenient after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before the House of Representatives for approval. Any regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

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