Hong Kong Ordinances

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) ORDINANCE - SECT 62

Power to exempt

Exemptions

(1) The Director may exempt any ship or class of ships from this Part or the
load line regulations if he is satisfied that the sheltered nature and
conditions of voyages undertaken by such ships make it unreasonable or
impracticable to apply this Part or the load line regulations.

(2) The Director may exempt any ship which embodies features of a novel kind
from any of the provisions of this Part or the load line regulations the
application of which may seriously impede research into the development of
such features and their incorporation in ships engaged on
international voyages.

(3) The Director may, in relation to a ship which does not normally ply on
international voyages but is, in exceptional circumstances, required to
undertake a single international voyage, exempt the ship from this Part and
the load line regulations while the ship is engaged on that voyage; but no
exemption shall be conferred unless the Director is satisfied that the ship
complies with such safety requirements as are, in his opinion, adequate for
the voyage which is to be undertaken by the ship.

(4) Any exemption conferred under this section may be conferred subject to
such conditions as the Director thinks fit; and where any such exemption is
conferred subject to conditions, the exemption shall not have effect unless
those conditions are complied with.