Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 17

Issue for cargo ships of safety equipment certificates and exemption certificates

(1) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a
ship registered in Hong Kong not being a passenger ship, is satisfied-

   (a)  that the ship complies with the life-saving appliances  regulations
        and the fire-fighting appliances regulations applicable to the ship
        and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on; and

   (b)  that it is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of
        making sound signals required by the collision regulations, he shall,
        on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of
        the ship a cargo ship safety equipment certificate showing that the
        ship complies with such of the requirements of the Convention relating
        to those matters as are applicable as aforesaid.

(2) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a
ship to which subsection (1) applies, is satisfied that-

   (a)  the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power in
        that behalf conferred on him by this Ordinance or conferred on him by
        the life-saving appliances regulations and the
        fire-fighting appliances  regulations, from any of the requirements of
        those regulations applicable to the ship and to such
        international voyages as it is to be engaged on;

   (b)  it complies with the rest of those requirements; and

   (c)  it is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making
        sound signals required by the collision regulations, he shall, on the
        application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the
        ship-

        (i)    an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of
               the Convention, being requirements the subject of the
               life-saving  appliances regulations and the
               fire-fighting appliances regulations and applicable as
               aforesaid, the ship is exempt from, and that the exemption is
               conditional on the ship's plying only on the voyages and
               complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the
               certificate; and

        (ii)   a qualified cargo ship safety equipment certificate showing
               that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements.