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1981 Ed.]

Merchant Shipping (Safety)

[CAP. 369

15. (1) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a passenger ship registered in Hong Kong is satisfied-

(a) that the ship complies with the passenger ship construction regulations, the life-saving appliances regulations, the fire-fighting appliances regulations, the radio regulations and the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on; and

(b) that it is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the collision regulations,

he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship a general safety certificate showing that the ship complies with the requirements of the Convention applicable to such ship and such voyage:

Provided that if the voyages on which the ship is to be engaged are short international voyages and it complies only with such of those regulations as are applicable to those voyages, the certificate shall show that the ship complies with the requirements of the Convention applicable to it as a ship plying on short international voyages.

(2) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a passenger ship to which subsection (1) applies, is satisfied that-

(a) the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power in that behalf conferred on him by this Ordinance or conferred on him by regulations made under this Ordinance, from any of the requirements of the passenger ship construction regulations, the life-saving appliances regulations, the fire-fighting appliances regulations, the radio regulations or the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on, whether short voyages or otherwise;

(b) it complies with the rest of those requirements; and

(c) it is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making sound signals required by the collision regulations,

he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship-

(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Convention applicable as aforesaid the ship is exempt from and that the exemption is conditional on the ship's plying only on the voyages and being engaged only in the trades and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and

(ii) a qualified safety certificate or a qualified short voyage safety certificate, as the case may be, showing that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements.

Issue for passenger ships of safety certificates and exemption certificates.

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