Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 100

Regulations in respect of distress signals and navigational warnings

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

"ship" (船、船舶)

(1) The Secretary for Economic Development and Labour may make regulations
prescribing- (Amended 56 of 1990 s. 10; 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002)

   (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 navigational dangers
        shall be reported.

(2) Regulations made under this section may be made to apply to all ships
registered in Hong Kong wherever they may be. (Added 56 of 1990 s. 10)

(3) In this section "ship" (船、船舶) includes a junk and a trawler to
which Part XII of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance ( Cap 281) applies. (Added
56 of 1990 s. 10)