Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 34

Further provisions as to the production of Convention certificates

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The master of every Convention ship not registered in Hong Kong shall
produce to the Director, at the time a clearance for the ship is demanded in
respect of an international voyage from Hong Kong, accepted 
Convention certificates that are the equivalent of the certificates issued by
the Director under this Ordinance that would be required to be in force in
respect of the ship if it were a ship registered in Hong Kong; and a clearance
shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such certificates
are so produced.

(1A) The Director may for the purposes of a clearance for a ship in respect of
an international voyage or a non-international voyage accept any certificate,
not being an accepted Convention certificate, where he is satisfied that any
standards relating to safety required to be complied with for the issue of
such a certificate are substantially the same as those required for a
certificate issued by the Director for a ship registered in Hong Kong under
this Ordinance or issued by him under the
Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance ( Cap 548) for a ship which is a
vessel required to be certificated under that Ordinance. (Added 5 of 1993 s.
6. Amended 43 of 1999 s. 91)

(2) For the purposes of section 33 an accepted Convention  certificate being
the equivalent of-

   (a)  a qualified certificate; or

   (b)  an exemption certificate, other than a certificate under
        section 18(3), shall not be accepted unless there is also produced the
        corresponding exemption certificate or qualified certificate, as the
        case may be.