Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (PREVENTION OF OIL POLLUTION) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4

Surveys before issue of an IOPP or HKOPP Certificate

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART II

SURVEYS, CERTIFICATES AND OIL RECORD BOOK

(1) The owner of every Hong Kong oil tanker of 150 GRT and above and every
other Hong Kong ship of 400 GRT and above, shall cause the same to be surveyed
before the ship is put into service or before an IOPP  Certificate or
HKOPP Certificate in respect of the ship is issued for the first time, and
thereafter at intervals not exceeding five years by a surveyor. Any
application for a survey shall be accompanied by calculations in accordance
with Part V of these Regulations and such information relating to the ship as
the Certifying Authority may require for the purposes of the survey.

(2) A Certifying Authority shall upon receipt of an application for survey and
any fee payable on such application cause the ship to be surveyed by a
surveyor.

(3) The surveyor shall survey the ship and satisfy himself that its structure,
equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements and material are in accordance with
the requirements of these Regulations and that the equipment and associated
pump and piping systems, including oil discharge monitoring and control
systems, crude oil washing systems, oily water separating equipment and oil
filtering systems are in good working order.

(4) The initial and any renewal survey to be carried out under this regulation
shall be in accordance with the procedures specified in
Merchant Shipping Notice 1012. (64 of 1999 s. 3)

(5) The surveyor, if satisfied on the survey that he may properly do so, shall
forward to the Certifying Authority a declaration of survey containing such
particulars of the ship as are required by the Certifying  Authority to enable
him to issue the appropriate Certificate in respect of the ship.