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Shipping and Port Control (Cargo Handling) Regulations

[1978 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

Schedule.

Application.

"safe working load", in relation to a lifting appliance or lifting gear, means-

(a) the appropriate safe working load for operating the lifting appliance or lifting gear as specified in the current certificate of test and examination delivered in the specified form by a competent examiner in respect of that lifting appliance or lifting gear for the purposes of these regulations; or

(b) where no such certificate is required, the relevant safe working load marked or ascertainable in accordance with regulation 25;

"specified form" means a form specified by the Director under regulation 54 for any particular purpose of these regulations or a form substantially similar to a form so specified;

"test and examination", in respect of a lifting appliance or lifting gear, means a test and examination in the manner set out in the Schedule;

"thorough examination", in respect of a lifting appliance or lifting gear, means a visual examination, supplemented if necessary by other means such as a hammer test, carried out as carefully as the conditions permit, in order to arrive at a reliable conclusion as to the safety of the parts examined; and if necessary for the purpose, by the dismantling of the parts of the lifting appliance or lifting gear;

"workplace" means any place on a vessel in which persons employed carry on cargo handling.

3. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), these regulations apply to all lifting appliances and lifting gear used for cargo handling on board vessels.

(2) These regulations do not apply to lifting appliances and lifting gear used from a place on land for cargo handling.

Duty to comply with this Part.

Safe means of access to vessels.

PART II

SAFE MEANS OF ACCESS AND SAFE WORKPLACES

4. It shall be the duty of the owner, master or officer in charge of a vessel to comply with this Part.

5. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), if a vessel is lying at a wharf or quay for the purpose of loading or unloading cargo, there shall be safe means of access for the use of persons employed at such times as they have to pass from the vessel to the shore or from the shore to the vessel.