A BILL
To
closure No. 4
Amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Amend- Short title and ment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1979 and shall come into operation on a day to commencement. be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended in the definition Amendment of of "Merchant Shipping Acts" by deleting "1960" and substituting the section 2. following-
"1979".
(Cap. 281.)
3. Section 27 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsections (3), (5) and (6).
section 27.
4. Section 38(3) of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of ", and the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948,". section 38.
5. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 38 Addition of new the following sections-
"Power to make regulations to give effect to International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974.
Radio regulations.
38A. (1) The Governor in Council may make such regulations as he considers appropriate to implement the provisions of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974, so far as those provisions are not implemented by or under any provision of the Merchant Shipping Acts as extended to the Colony or by or under this Ordinance.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) the Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to ships provided with nuclear power plants for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Annex to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974.
(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) and without prejudice to the generality of the powers contained therein the rules (including the nuclear ship rules) made from time to time under the Merchant Shipping Acts implementing the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 shall, unless varied by or repugnant to the regulations made under this section, be deemed to be regulations made under this section.
38B. (1) The Governor in Council may make regula- tions (in this section called "radio regulations") requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with radio equipment of such a nature (but not including a radio navigational aid) as may be prescribed by the regulations and to maintain such a radio service and to carry such number of radio officers or operators of such grades and possessing such qualifications, as may be so prescribed; and the regulations may contain provisions for preventing, so far as practicable, electrical interference by other apparatus on board with the equipment provided under the regulations.
sections 38A. 38B and 38C.