Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Regulations

Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Charts and Nautical Publications) Regulations, 2002

5. Use of charts

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The person in charge of the navigation of a ship must use the current edition of a chart that—

(a) is published under the authority of the government of a country;
(b) applies to the immediate area in which the ship is being navigated; and
(c) is of such scale and detail as clearly to show—
(i) all navigational marks that may be used by a ship when navigating the waters comprised in the chart;
(ii) all known dangers affecting those waters; and
(iii) information respecting any ships' routeing and ship reporting measures applicable to those waters.