Section 344. Power to make rules respecting certificates under this Part

344. Power to make rules respecting certificates under this Part .―(1) The Central Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Part relating to certificates granted under this Part. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may prescribe― 2 [(a) the form of any certificate and record of equipment issued under this Part; (aa) the manner of surveys required to be made in respect of ships to which the manner of surveys specified in the Safety Convention is not applicable;] 1. Subs. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 29, for "any ship of less than five hundred tons gross other than a passenger ship" (w.e.f. 28-5-1966). 2. Subs. by Act 63 of 2002, s.15, for clause (a) (w.e.f. 1-2-2003). (b) the circumstances in which a certificate purporting to have been issued outside India in accordance with the provisions of the Safety Convention or the Load Line Convention shall be recognised in India; (c) the fees to be charged in respect of any certificate issued under this Part and the manner in which such fees may be recovered. 1[(d) the fees to be charged for the survey or inspection of hull, machinery, boilers, electrical appliances and other fittings and the materials used for their construction, fire appliances, life-saving appliances, radio communications equipment, radar, echo sounding device and gyro compass, or testing or approval of any of the foregoing equipments or materials used for their manufacture, or examination of plans of construction of any part of ships' hull, machinery, electrical appliances and other equipment aforesaid and the manner in which such fees may be recovered.] appliances and other fittings and the materials used for their construction, fire appliances, 2[PART IXA NUCLEAR SHIPS 344A.Application of Act to nuclear ships. ―(1) This Part applies only to nuclear ships. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, a nuclear ship shall not be required to obtain or produce any certificate referred to in sub-clauses (i) to (ix) of clause (38) of section 3 or, as the case may be, any like valid safety convention certificate. (3) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that any of the provisions of this Act (other than the provisions of this Part and the provisions of section 456) specified in the notification― (a) shall not apply to nuclear ships; or (b) shall apply to nuclear ships, only with such exceptions, modifications and adaptations as may be specified in the notification. (4) A copy of every notification proposed to be issued under sub-section (3) shall be laid in draft before both Houses of Parliament for a period of not less than thirty days while they are in session and it shall not be issued until it has been approved, whether with or without modification, by each House of Parliament.