Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (PREVENTION OF OIL POLLUTION) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3

Equivalents

The Director may permit any fitting, material, appliance or apparatus to be
fitted in a ship as an alternative to that required by these Regulations if
such fitting, material, appliance or apparatus is at least as effective as
that required by these Regulations, but shall not permit the substitution of
operational methods to control the discharge of oil as being equivalent to
those design and construction features which are prescribed by these
Regulations.