Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (PREVENTION OF OIL POLLUTION) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5

Annual survey

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The owner of every Hong Kong ship in respect of which an IOPP  Certificate
has been issued shall, so long as the certificate remains in force, cause the
ship to be subject to an annual survey, which shall be carried out within
three months before or after the anniversary date of the IOPP Certificate,
provided that no annual survey shall be required when the intermediate survey
pursuant to regulation 6 is carried out within three months before or after
the anniversary date of the IOPP  Certificate.

(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 in accordance with the procedures
specified in Merchant Shipping Notice 1012 and satisfy himself- (64 of 1999 s.
3)

   (a)  that such of the parts of the ship and its equipment specified in that
        Merchant Shipping Notice as are the subject of the application for
        survey remain efficient; and

   (b)  that no material alterations have been made in the structure,
        equipment, systems, fittings, arrangements and material to which the
        IOPP  Certificate relates without the approval of a
        Certifying Authority.

(4) On completion of the survey in accordance with the requirements of the
preceding paragraph the surveyor shall, where he is so satisfied, endorse the
IOPP Certificate to that effect.