Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 21A

Issue of cargo ship safety certificates

(1) If on-

   (a)  receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a ship to which
        section 11 applies and which is registered in Hong Kong; and

   (b)  the application of the owner, agent or master of the ship, the
        Director is satisfied that-

        (i)    the ship complies with- (A) the
               life-saving appliances regulations; (B) the
               fire-fighting appliances regulations; (C) the
               radio regulations; (D) the navigational equipment regulations;
               and (E) the cargo ship construction and survey regulations,
               applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it
               is to be engaged on; and

        (ii)   the ship is properly provided with the lights, shapes, and
               means of making sound signals required by the
               collision regulations, he may issue in respect of the ship a
               cargo ship safety certificate showing that the ship complies
               with such of the requirements of the Convention relating to the
               matters specified in paragraph (ii) and to the matters for
               which the regulations set out in paragraph (i) are made.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Ordinance to
a cargo ship safety equipment certificate, a cargo ship 
safety radio certificate or a cargo ship safety construction certificate
shall, where a cargo ship safety certificate has been issued in respect of a
ship, be construed in relation to that ship as a reference to the cargo 
ship safety certificate, and the other provisions of this Ordinance shall
apply accordingly.

(3) Nothing in this section shall derogate from the power to issue a
certificate under section 17(1), 18(1) or 21(1). (Added 6 of 2000 s. 6)