Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (REGISTRATION) (TONNAGE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 16

Application of Part VI

PART VI

INTERIM SCHEME FOR TONNAGE MEASUREMENT FOR CERTAIN SHIPS

(1) The Director may, at the written request of an owner of a Hong Kong ship
required to be measured and certified in accordance with Part II of these
regulations-

   (a)  which is a ship the keel of which is laid or is at a similar 
        stage of construction not later than 31 December 1985; or

   (b)  which is a cargo ship of less than 1600 tons gross tonnage as
        ascertained in accordance with regulation 13(3) of these regulations,
        the keel of which is laid or is at a similar stage of construction
        before 18 July 1994, permit such a ship to have, additionally, its
        gross tonnage ascertained by the Certifying Authority in accordance
        with the provisions set out in Schedule 5 and Appendices 1 to 4
        thereto, and to use this tonnage for the purpose of the application of
        the provisions of regulations implementing the International
        Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974 and the Protocol of 1978
        relating to that Convention.

(2) The measurement of a ship in accordance with paragraph (1) above shall be
in respect of gross tonnage only and an appropriate Tonnage Certificate shall
be issued and it shall be endorsed with the following endorsement- (74 of 1990
Sch. 5) "For use only for the application of the Interim Scheme for Tonnage
Measurement for Certain Ships (IMO Resolution A494(XII))".

(3) Where the gross tonnage is ascertained in accordance with paragraph (1)
above and a Safety of Life at Sea convention certificate is subsequently
issued, then only that tonnage shall be recorded in that certificate and the
certificate shall be endorsed with the following endorsement- "The above gross
tonnage has been measured by the Certifying Authority of Hong Kong in
accordance with the tonnage regulations which were in force prior to the
coming into force of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of
Ships 1969".