# Merchant Shipping(Liner Conferences) Act 1982, National shipping line


A national shipping line of any given country is a vessel-operating carrier which has its head office of management and its effective control in that country and is recognized as such by an appropriate authority of that country or under the law of that country.
Lines belonging to and operated by a joint venture involving two or more countries and in whose equity the national interests, public and/or private, of those countries have a substantial share and whose head office of management and whose effective control is in one of those countries can be recognized as a national line by the appropriate authorities of those countries.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/37/schedule/part/ONE/chapter/I/crossheading/national-shipping-line (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shippingliner-conferences-act-1982/schedule/part-ONE/chapter-I/crossheading-national-shipping-line
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