Hong Kong Regulations

SHIPPING AND PORT CONTROL REGULATIONS - REGULATION 43

Use of Government buoys and moorings

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Except with the permission of the Director, no vessel shall moor to a
Government mooring buoy.

(2) A vessel shall be secured to a Government mooring buoy by her anchor
cable.

(3) A vessel which is moored to a Government mooring buoy shall not-

   (a)  swing ship for compass adjustment; or

   (b)  test main propulsion machinery.

(4) When a tropical cyclone warning signal is announced by the Hong Kong
Observatory every vessel (other than a dead ship) which is moored to a
Government mooring buoy shall clear anchor and cables and prepare the main
propulsion machinery to full power conditions and such vessel shall, if so
directed by the Director, leave the mooring buoy. (L.N. 408 of 1994; L.N. 362
of 1997)

(5) If without reasonable excuse this regulation is contravened, the master of
the vessel commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10000.