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Merchant Shipping (Safety)

Duties of owners and masters as to carrying life-saving appliances and fire-fighting appliances.

Penalty for breach of life-saving appliances regulations and fire-fighting appliances regulations.

Entry in log-book of boat-drill.

[1981 Ed.

any mark prescribed by those regulations for denoting that it has passed those tests, or any other mark calculated to suggest that it has passed those tests, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.

(4) In this section, "anchor" and "cable" have the meanings assigned to them by section 103(2).

43. It shall be the duty of the owner and master of every ship registered in Hong Kong to ensure that such ship is provided with such life-saving appliances and fire-fighting appliances as may be prescribed by the life-saving appliances regulations and the fire-fighting appliances regulations.

44. In the case of any ship-

(a) if the ship is required to be provided with life-saving appliances or fire-fighting appliances and proceeds on any voyage without being so provided in the manner prescribed;

(b) if any of the appliances with which the ship is so provided are lost or rendered unfit for service in the course of the voyage through the wilful fault or negligence of the owner or master;

(c) if the master wilfully neglects to replace or repair, on the first opportunity, any such appliance lost or damaged in the course of the voyage;

(d) if such appliances are not kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use; or

(e) if any provision of the life-saving appliances regulations or the fire-fighting appliances regulations is contravened or not complied with,

then the owner of the ship (if at fault) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years and the master of the ship (if at fault) commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

45. (1) The master of every ship to which this section applies shall enter in the official log-book a statement, or, if there is no official log-book, keep some other record, of every occasion on which boat-drill or fire-drill is practised on board ship, or on which the appliances and equipment required to be carried by virtue of the life-saving appliances regulations and the fire-fighting appliances regulations are examined to see whether they are fit and ready for use and of the result of any such examination; and if-

(a) in the case of a passenger ship, boat-drill or fire-drill is not practised on board the ship in any week;

(b) in the case of any other ship, boat-drill or fire-drill is not practised on board ship in any month;