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Merchant Shipping (Safety)

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(b) for giving effect to any provisions of an international agreement applicable to Hong Kong so far as the agreement relates to the safety of other ships or persons on them or to the protection of the health of persons on other ships.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations made under that subsection may in particular provide for-

(a) the design, construction, maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, surveying and marking of ships and their machinery and equipment;

(b) the packaging, marking, loading, placing, moving, inspection, testing and measuring of cargo and anything on a ship which is not cargo, machinery or equipment;

(c) the carrying out of any operation involving a ship;

(d) the use of the machinery and equipment of a ship and of anything on a ship which is not cargo, machinery or equipment;

(e) the arrangements for ensuring communication between persons in different parts of a ship and between persons in the ship and other persons;

(f) the access to, presence in and egress from a ship, and different parts of it, of persons of any description;

(g) the ventilation, temperature and lighting of different parts of a ship;

(h) the steps to be taken to prevent or control noise, vibration and radiation in and from a ship and the emission in or from a ship of smoke, gas and dust;

(i) the steps to be taken to prevent, detect and deal with outbreaks of fire on a ship;

(j) the steps to be taken to prevent any collision involving a ship and in consequence of any collision involving a ship;

(k) the steps to be taken, in a case where a ship is in distress or stranded or wrecked, for the purpose of saving the ship and its machinery, equipment and cargo and the lives of persons on or from the ship, including the steps to be taken by other persons for giving assistance in such a case;

(l) the removal, by jettisoning or otherwise, of its equipment and of other things from a ship for the purpose of avoiding, removing or reducing danger to persons or property;

(m) the steps to be taken, in a case where danger of any kind occurs or is suspected on a ship, for removing or reducing the danger and for warning persons who are not on the ship of the danger or suspected danger;