Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (FEES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5

Fees for services outside Hong Kong

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Where the issue of any certificate or clearance is dependent upon any
survey or inspection to be undertaken outside Hong Kong by a surveyor sent
from Hong Kong for that purpose, there shall be payable-

   (a)  a fee calculated in accordance with subregulation (3); and (43 of 1999
        s. 91)

   (b)  the travelling and subsistence expenses of the surveyor in such
        reasonable sum as the Director shall determine.

(2) (Repealed 43 of 1999 s. 91)

(3) For any survey or inspection described in Sections A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I,
J, K, L and O in Part II of the Schedule, the fee payable shall be- (44 of
1995 s. 143)

   (a)  where the fee for the services is entirely determinable by the time
        involved, the sum of $7645, in lieu of an hourly rate, for each period
        of 24 hours or part thereof during which the surveyor is absent from
        Hong Kong on account of the survey or inspection; or

   (b)  where the fee for the services is not determinable by the time
        involved, the sum of $15290 for the whole period during which the
        surveyor is absent from Hong Kong on account of the survey or
        inspection, and in addition, the fee specified in the relevant
        Sections of the Schedule; or

   (c)  where the fee for the services is partly determinable and partly not
        determinable by the time involved, the aggregate of-

        (i)    for the services determinable by the time involved, the sum of
               $7645 for each period of 24 hours or part thereof during which
               the surveyor is absent from Hong Kong, less the actual number
               of hours the surveyor is required to undertake that particular
               survey or inspection referred to in subparagraph (ii); and

        (ii)   for the services not determinable by the time involved, the fee
               for the services specified in the relevant Sections of the
               Schedule. (L.N. 334 of 1994; L.N. 354 of 1994; L.N. 270 of
               1995)

(4) The duration of a surveyor's absence from Hong Kong shall be calculated
with reference to the departure time and arrival time from and at Hong Kong.

(5) Where part of the survey or inspection undertaken by a surveyor is done
within Hong Kong and part of it is done outside Hong Kong, the fee payable for
each part shall be calculated according to regulation 3 and this regulation
respectively. (L.N. 252 of 1994)