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CAP. 295]
Dangerous Goods (Shipping) Regulations
[1983 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 96/74.
L.N. 96/74.
(Cap. 295, sub. leg.)
(Cap. 281.)
"handle" includes all operations connected with loading, unloading, discharging, stacking, stowing or restowing of dangerous goods or other cargo;
"in bulk" means contained in tanks fitted into or forming part of the construction of a vessel or contained directly in the hull of the vessel itself;
"package", in relation to dangerous goods, includes every method by which such goods may be cased, covered, enclosed, contained or packed;
"passenger" means any person carried in a vessel except-
(a) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the vessel on the business of the vessel; and
(b) a person on board the vessel either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry ship-wrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circumstances that neither the master nor the owner could have prevented or forestalled;
"removal permit" means a permit granted pursuant to the provisions of regulation 4 of the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations;
"type I vessel" means any vessel trading to or from the Colony, other than a type II vessel;
"type II vessel" means any vessel trading to or from the Colony and conveying dangerous goods in category 5 in bulk;
"type III vessel" means any vessel trading exclusively within the waters of the Colony and required to be registered or licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
Vessels on fire.
Dangerous goods manifests to be furnished.
L.N. 215/77.
Second Schedule.
PART II
PROVISIONS RELATING TO TYPE I VESSELS
3. No type I vessel conveying any dangerous goods in which any part of the cargo, whether such part consists of dangerous goods or not and whether such part is stowed below hatches or on deck, is, or has been within 24 hours previous to the time of arrival, on fire shall enter the harbour without the permission of the Director.
4. The owner, agents or master of any type I vessel arriving in the waters of the Colony and having on board any dangerous goods shall, not less than 48 hours before the estimated time of arrival of the vessel, furnish the Director with 6 copies of a manifest in the English language in the Form set out in the Second Schedule of all of such dangerous goods: