Hong Kong Regulations

DANGEROUS GOODS (SHIPPING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 14

Restrictions on carriage of passengers on type III vessels carrying dangerous goods

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), except with the permission of
the Director, no passengers shall be conveyed in any type  III vessel at the
same time as such vessel is conveying any dangerous  goods.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1), passengers may be
conveyed in any vehicular ferry at the same time as dangerous goods are
carried: Provided that-

   (a)  such goods are contained in a vehicle; and

   (b)  such vehicle is conspicuously marked to indicate that it contains
        dangerous goods.