29. Replacement of section 330 of the principal enactment

Convention for the Safety of Life at

Sea 1974, Protocol of 1988 as amended from time to time and any subsequent amendment made to such

Protocol shall have effect as regulations made under section 139, and shall take effect with such modification as may be necessary to adapt them to the circumstances of

Sri Lanka; and any reference therein to the “Administration” shall be construed as a reference to the Director

General of Merchant Shipping, or to such other person or officer as the

Director-General of Merchant

Shipping may for such purposes appoint;

Convention on Load Lines, 1966 as modified by the Protocol of 1988 and any subsequent amendment made to

“Power of exemption.

“Application of international conventions.

such Protocol, shall have effect as regulations made under Part VI of this

Act, and shall take effect with such modification as may be necessary to adapt them to the circumstances of

Sri Lanka;

Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 shall have effect as regulations made under section 44, and shall take effect with such modification as may be necessary to adapt them to the circumstances of Sri

Lanka; and

Convention for the prevention of pollution from ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 and the Protocol of 1997 and any subsequent amendment made to such

Protocols shall have effect as regulations made under section 215B, and shall take effect with such modification as may be necessary to adapt them to the circumstances of

Sri Lanka.”.