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Merchant Shipping (Safety)

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(p) the examination and maintenance at intervals to be pre- scribed by the regulations of any appliances or equipment required by the regulations to be carried.

(2) The life-saving appliances regulations and the fire-fighting appliances regulations shall include such requirements as appear to the Governor in Council to be necessary to implement the provisions of the Convention and the Simla Rules 1931 or any replacement of those Rules relating to the matters referred to in subsection (1).

(3) This section applies to-

(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and

(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong: Provided that this section shall not apply to a ship by reason of its being within the waters of Hong Kong if it would not have been in such waters but for stress of weather or other circumstance which neither the master nor the owner of the ship could have prevented or forestalled.

100. The Governor in Council may make regulations Regulations in prescribing

(a) what signals shall be used by ships as signals of distress; (b) the circumstances in which, and the purposes for which, any such signal is to be used and the circumstances in which it is to be revoked; and

(c) the circumstances and manner in which warnings of navi-

gational dangers shall be reported.

(2)

101. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for regulating in the interests of safety the carriage of dangerous goods in ships to which this section applies.

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If any of the regulations made under subsection (1) are not complied with-

(a) the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is

liable to a fine of $10,000, and

(b) the ship shall be deemed for the purposes of section 67 to

be unsafe by reason of improper loading.

(3) This section applies to-

(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and

(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong. 102. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations-

(a) for the surveying and periodic inspection of ships to which

Part IV applies;

(b) for determining freeboards to be assigned from time to

time to such ships;

respect of distress signals and navigational warnings.

Regulations in respect of carriage of dangerous goods.

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Load line regulations.