Hong Kong Regulations

SHIPPING AND PORT CONTROL REGULATIONS - REGULATION 6A

Pre-arrival notification or report for permission to enter the waters of Hong Kong

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the owner or his local agent or the master of a
vessel to which this regulation applies shall- (24 of 2005 s. 45)

   (a)  not less than 24 hours before the intended entry of that vessel into
        the waters of Hong Kong from sea or river trade waters, as the case
        may be; or

   (b)  where that vessel leaves its last port of call less than 24 hours
        before that intended entry immediately after so leaving, apply to the
        Director for permission for that vessel to enter the waters of Hong
        Kong by notification and provide the information specified in the
        Sixteenth Schedule in that notification.

(2) Where the owner, agent or master of the vessel is unable to comply with
paragraph (1) by means of notification because of the proximity of that
vessel's last port of call to the waters of Hong Kong, the master of that
vessel shall, immediately after the vessel leaves that last port of call on a
course to enter those waters, report the information specified in the
Sixteenth Schedule to the vessel traffic  centre on the VHF channel
appropriate to the VHF sector into which that vessel is to enter those waters,
and apply for permission to so enter those waters.

(3) The Director may, on receiving an application under this regulation, grant
the person making the application, permission for the vessel to enter the
waters of Hong Kong and provide that person with such information, or give
that person such directions (including directions under section 16 of the
Ordinance) or instructions, as the case may be, as the Director thinks fit, or
the Director may refuse to grant that person such permission.

(4) In complying with paragraph (1) or (2), a master of a vessel shall be
deemed to have complied with section 10E of the Pilotage  Ordinance ( Cap 84).
(L.N. 408 of 1994)