Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) (DANGEROUS GOODS AND MARINE POLLUTANTS) REGULATION - SECT 11

Packaging of dangerous goods and marine pollutants

(1) The packaging of packaged goods shall be in accordance with the IMDG Code.
Such packaging shall, if required by the IMDG Code, be performance tested as
specified in the Code.

(2) Packaged goods shall not be taken on board any ship for carriage in that
ship if the shipowner or master knows or ought to know that the goods are not
packaged in such a manner as to withstand the ordinary risk of carriage by
sea.

(3) A shipowner or master or shipper of such goods who fails to comply with
the provisions of this section commits an offence. (Enacted 1994)