Hong Kong Ordinances Hong Kong Ordinances
- CHAPTER 478
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Application
4. Establishment of Seafarers' Authority
5. Establishment of Mercantile Marine Office
6. Establishment of Seafarers' Advisory Board
7. Register of seafarers
8. Part I of register
9. Part II of register
10. Seafarers required to be registered and renewal of registration
11. Employment of persons who are not seafarers
12. Disqualification for entry of seafarer's name in register
13. Particulars to be entered in register
14. Change of seafarer's rating
15. Power of Authority to direct that name of seafarer be restored to
register
16. Seafarer's employment registration book
17. Regulations in relation to employment registration books
18. Establishment of Seafarers' Appeals Board
19. Members of Seafarers' Appeals Board
20. Complaint against seafarer
21. Suspension of registration of seafarer prior to disciplinary inquiry
22. Disciplinary inquiry to be held
23. Conduct of disciplinary inquiry
24. Summons
25. Representation
26. Evidence
27. Abandonment of disciplinary inquiry
28. Removal of seafarer's name from register
29. Suspension of registration of seafarer after disciplinary inquiry
30. Suspension on medical grounds
31. Appeals
32. Provision where hearing of appeal not commenced within prescribed
period
33. Hearing of appeal in absence of appellant
34. Practice and procedure upon hearing of appeal
35. Majority decision
36. Determination of appeal
37. Seafarer, etc. to be given notice of decision of Appeals Board
38. Appeal to judge of District Court on point of law
39. Notice to employer of result of appeal
40. Control of listing, supply and employment of registered seafarers
41. Procedures for mustering and supply of registered seafarers
42. Procedures for the selection of registered seafarers for listing by
permitted companies
43. Restrictions on listing of registered seafarers
44. Procedures for employment of registered seafarers by permitted
companies
45. Employment of registered seafarers through mustering procedure
46. Registered seafarers may offer their services with permission of the
Superintendent
47. Emergency employment procedures
48. Re-employment of registered seafarers
49. Return of employment and re-employment cards to Superintendent
50. Notification of intention not to re-employ
51. Authority may detain ship where seafarer is in the ship in
contravention of section 40
52. Permits to maintain company rosters
53. Information to be supplied to Superintendent
54. Grounds on which grant of permit may be refused
55. Notice of refusal to grant permit
56. Cancellation of permit
57. Restriction on ships for employment in which permitted crew
department may supply registered seafarers
58. Changes in staff of permitted crew department to be notified to
Superintendent
59. Display of names of crew department staff
60. Appeal against certain decisions of Superintendent
61. Permitted crew department records
62. Superintendent may require registered seafarer's name to be restored
to crew department record
63. Restriction on supply of registered seafarers by permitted company
64. Lists of registered seafarers waiting to be supplied for employment
in ships
65. Particulars of registered seafarers employed by permitted company to
be delivered to Superintendent
66. Changes in particulars of permitted crew department to be notified
to Superintendent
67. Approval of methods used in permitted crew department to select
registered seafarers
68. Certain notices and other documents to be displayed in permitted
crew department
69. Advance of wages
70. Approval of methods used by permitted company to pay allotments and
remittances and display of certain notices
71. Corruption
72. Scale of certificated officers and other seafarers, etc.
73. Standards of competency of officers and other seafarers
74. Certificates of competency for seafarers other than officers
75. Rating as A.B.
76. Employment and discharge of seafarers to be conducted before the
Superintendent
77. Fees upon employment or discharge
78. Procedure upon discharge, and provision for seafarer left behind or
remaining in Hong Kong
79. Removal of discharged seafarers
80. Crew agreements
81. Regulations relating to crew agreements
82. Discharge of seafarers
83. Discharge of seafarers when ship ceases to be registered in Hong
Kong
84. Payment of seafarer's wages
85. Account of seafarers' wages
86. Regulations relating to wages and accounts
87. Power of Superintendent to decide disputes about wages
88. Power of court to award interest on wages due otherwise than under
crew agreement
89. Allotment notes
90. Right of person named in allotment note to sue in own name
91. Right, or loss of right, to wages in certain circumstances
92. Certificate of discharge to be provided to seafarer discharged in
Hong Kong
93. Protection of certain rights and remedies
94. Remedies of master for remuneration, disbursements, etc.
95. Lists of crew
96. Regulations relating to health, safety and welfare of seafarers
97. Regulations relating to crew accommodation
98. Complaints about provisions or water
99. Other complaints
100. Medical stores
101. Medical treatment on board ship
102. Expenses of medical treatment, etc. during voyage
103. Medical inspection
104. Relief and return of seafarers left behind, etc.
105. Limit of employer's liability under section 104
106. Recovery of expenses incurred for relief and return, etc.
107. Disciplinary offences
108. Payment of fines for disciplinary offences
109. Civil liability for smuggling
110. Civil liability for fines imposed under immigration laws
111. Interpretation
112. Inquiry into fitness or conduct of officer
113. Powers of persons holding inquiry
114. Re-hearing of and appeal from inquiries
115. Rules as to inquiries, etc.
116. Penalty for refusing to attend as witness, etc.
117. Failure to deliver cancelled or suspended certificate, etc.
118. Power to restore certificate, etc.
119. Official log books
120. Admissibility in evidence and inspection of certain documents
121. Returns of births, deaths and missing persons, etc.
121A. Maintenance of register and storage of information
121B. Disposal of certified copies filed in Marine Register Book of Births
and Deaths
122. Inquiries into deaths of persons in Hong Kong ships
123. Entry to premises, etc. and power to search, seize, etc.
124. Power of Authority to prescribe forms
125. Delegations
126. Service of notices and documents on seafarers, etc.
127. False statement or information
128. Forgery, etc. of certificate
129. Handing over of documents on change of master
130. Power to detain ships in certain cases
131. Penalty for taking detained ship to sea
132. Notice to be given to nearest consular officer where proceedings
taken in respect of foreign ship
133. Regulations relating to fees
134. Regulations - general powers
135. Payment of remuneration to certain persons
136. Interpretation
137. Place appointed to be the Office
138. Registered seamen deemed to be registered seafarers, etc.
139. Certain unregistered seamen deemed to be registered seafarers
140. Former permitted companies deemed to be permitted companies, etc.
141. Royal Fleet Auxiliary
142. Application of Merchant Shipping Acts, etc.
143. (Omitted as spent)
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
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