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Citation and

CONTINENC

ment.

Interpre lation.

First Schedule.

(L.N. 15/64).

(G.N.A. 111/53)

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DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, 1956.

(No. 38 of 1956).

DANGEROUS GOODS (SHIPPING) REGULATIONS, 1964.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1956, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

PART I

PRELIMINARY.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dangerous Goods (Shipping) Regulations, 1964, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the coming into operation of the Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Ordinance, 1964.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires~~ "approved petroleum wharf" means any wharf specified in the

First Schedule;

"dangerous goods" means any goods classified as being dangerous goods in the Dangerous Goods (Classification) Regulations, 1964, aud reference to any category, class or division of dangerous goods refers to the category, class or division, as the case may be, of dangerous goods classified in those regulations:

"dangerous goods anchorage" means any area specified as a dangerous goods anchorage in the Fourth Appendix to the Merchant Shipping (Control of Ports) Regulations, 1953;

"Director"" means the Director of Marine:

"in bulk" means contained in tanks fitted into or forming part of the construction of a vessel or contained directly in the bull of the vessel itself;

"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:

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"removal permit" means a permit granted pursuant to the provisions of

regulation 4 of the Dangerous Goods (General) Regulations, 1964; (L.N. 14/64). "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 of 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, 1953.

PART II

PROVISIONS RELATING TO TYPE 1 VESSELS.

(14 of 1953).

fire.

3. No type I vessel conveying any dangerous goods in which any Vessels co 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 twenty-four hours previous to the time of arrival, on fire shall enter the harbour without the permission of the Director.

fests to be

4. The owner, agents or master of any type I vessel arriving in Dangerous the waters of the Colony and having on board any dangerous goods goods mani- shall, not less than forty-eight hours before the estimated time of arrival furnished, of the vessel, furnish the Director with a manifest in triplicate in the English language in the Form set out in the Second Schedule of all of Second such dangerous goods:

Provided that where for reasonable cause it is not possible to furnish such manifest in the manner and time aforesaid a manifest shall be fumished immediately after the arrival of the vessel in the harbour.

Schedule.

5. (1) Except with the permission of the Director, no type I vessel Movements conveying dangerous goods of category 1 shall-

of type

1 vessels

(4) enter or leave the harbour except by the East Lamma Channel conveying

and the western entrance to the harbour:

(b) being within the harbour, proceed otherwise than directly to

or from the western dangerous goods anchorage;

(4) being in the western dangerous goods anchorage, move there-

from without the permission of the Director.

(2) No type i vessel conveying dangerous goods of category 5. class 1 or 2 shall-

(a) berth or anchor except at an approved petroleum wharf or in a dangerous goods anchorage other than the western dangerous goods anchorage:

explosives or certain inflammables generally.