3. (1) Subject to subsection (2) and sections 8 and 19, these Regulations do not apply to a ship of 100 tons, gross tonnage, or less.

(2) Sections 28 to 30 apply to every ship.

4. (1) No non-Canadian ship that is not a Safety Convention ship shall navigate in any zone unless it complies, as if it were a Canadian ship, with the following Regulations:

• (a) Hull Construction Regulations;

• (b) Hull Inspection Regulations; and

• (c) Marine Machinery Regulations.

• (d) [Repealed, SOR/91-483, s. 2]

(2) No non-Canadian Safety Convention ship shall navigate in any zone unless it complies with the requirements of that Safety Convention most recent in time to which the state in which it is registered is a party.

(3) A non-Canadian Safety Convention ship has complied with that Safety Convention most recent in time to which the state in which the ship is registered is a party if the ship carries on board a valid certificate applicable to the ship and issued under the Safety Convention, namely:

• (a) a Passenger Ship Safety Certificate, or

• (b) a Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate and a Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate,

and where such ship has been exempted from any of the provisions of the Safety Convention,

• (c) an Exemption Certificate.

5. (1) No non-Canadian ship, other than an Arctic class ship, that is registered in a state that is not a signatory to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, or the International Load Line Convention, 1930, shall navigate in any zone unless it complies, as if it were a Canadian ship, with the Load Line Regulations.

(2) No non-Canadian ship, other than an Arctic class ship, that is registered in a state that is a signatory to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 or the International Load Line Convention, 1930, shall navigate in any zone unless it complies with the requirements of the Convention to which its state is a signatory.

(3) No non-Canadian Arctic class ship shall navigate in any zone unless it complies with the requirements of Annex 1 of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966.

(4) Every non-Canadian ship that has on board and in force a load line certificate showing that it complies with the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, the International Load Line Convention, 1930, or Annex 1 of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, which certificate has been issued by

• (a) a surveyor working exclusively for

  • (i) American Bureau of Shipping,

  • (ii) Bureau Veritas,

  • (iii) Det Norske Veritas,

  • (iv) Germanischer Lloyd,

  • (v) Lloyd’s Register of Shipping,

  • (vi) Nippon Kaiji Kyokai,

  • (vii) Register of Shipping of the USSR,

  • (viii) Registro Italiano Navale,

  • (ix) Polski Rejestr Statkow, or

  • (x) Registrul Naval Roman,

• (b) a surveyor of ships in the service of a state that is a signatory to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, or the International Load Line Convention, 1930, or

• (c) an inspector,

shall be deemed to have complied with subsection (1), (2) or (3) as the case may be.