CODE of PRACTICE ---- Safety Standards for Classes I, II and III Vessels
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CODE OF PRACTICE ---- Safety Standards for Classes I, II and III Vessels (issued under Section 8 of the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance, Cap 548) Local Vessels Safety Section Marine Department, HKSAR ( December 2006 Edition ) Record on Updating and Amendments This code of practice is issued under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance, (Cap. 548). This code was first notified in the Gazette Notice on (date to be inserted when made known) to take effect on(date to be inserted when made known). Subsequent updating and amendments would be notified to the industry through further notice in the Gazette from time to time. This record sheet is intended for good record keeping of the amendment history of this code. Amendment No. Gazette No. Gazette Date Effective Date Topic Areas/Pages FOREWORD (1) The Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels) Ordinance, Cap 548 (here below refers as “the Ordinance”), is to provide for the regulation and control of local vessels in Hong Kong and for other matters affecting local vessels, including their navigation and safety at sea (whether within or beyond the waters of Hong Kong). (2) This Code of Practice is approved and issued by the Director in pursuant to section 8 of the Ordinance for the purpose of ensuring acceptable technical and safety standards in the design, construction, maintenance and inspection of local vessels in conjunction with the condition required or the standards prescribed by the Director under Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels)(Safety and Survey) Regulation (here below refers as “Survey Regulation”). This Code also provides necessary practical guidance on operational safety practices in conjunction with the relevant requirements in the Merchant Shipping (Local Vessels)(Certification and Licensing) Regulation. (3) Section 9 of the Ordinance explains the use of approved codes of practice in proceeding which are quoted as followings:- “(1) A failure on the part of any person to observe any provision of a code of practice approved under section 8 shall not of itself render the person liable to any civil or criminal proceedings but where in any proceedings under this Ordinance a person is alleged to have contravened a requirement under this Ordinance, being a requirement for which there was an approved code of practice at the time of the alleged contravention, subsection (2) shall have effect with respect to such code in relation to those proceedings. (2) Any provision of a code of practice which appears to a specified body to be relevant to a requirement under this Ordinance alleged to have been contravened shall be admissible in evidence in the proceedings under this Ordinance concerned and if it is proved that there was at any material time a failure to observe any provision of the code which appears to that body to be relevant to any matter which it is necessary to prove in order to establish a contravention of such requirement, that matter shall be taken as proved in the absence of evidence that such requirement was in respect of that matter complied with otherwise than by way of observance of that provision. (3) In any proceedings under this Ordinance, a code of practice which appears to a specified body to be the subject of a notice under section 8 shall be taken to be the subject of such notice in the absence of evidence to the contrary. ” (4) The owner, agent and the coxswain of any Class II and III vessel when engaged in operations outside the waters of Hong Kong are required - (a) to ensure the compliance with relevant safety requirements specified by the Director. These requirements are promulgated in the Marine Department notices from time to time, and (b) to observe any relevant requirement required by local Authority of those waters. CODE OF PRACTICE - SAFETY STANDARDS FOR CLASS I, II AND III VESSELS CHAPTER I GENERAL Section Page Record on updating and amendments Forward 1 Introduction I-1 2 Statutory legislation and certificate, etc 6 3 Definitions 8 4 Application 13 5 Category of vessel 13 6 Application for survey/inspection and survey/inspection fees 15 7 Exclusion / exemption 16 8 Equivalent 17 9 Interpretation 17 CHAPTER II SURVEY/INSPECTION, ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE AND PLAN APPROVAL 1 Survey/inspection for issue or endorsement of certificate II-1 2 Validity of certificates and endorsement 2 3 Statutory surveys and application 2 4 Submission of plans and data 4 5 Plans and data required to be submitted 4 6 Plans to be retained onboard 8 7 Survey/inspection items and survey/inspection programmes 9 Table 1 Initial survey (its final inspection items are 9 separately listed) 2 Periodical survey (its final inspection items are 12 separately listed) 3 Final inspection (for initial survey or periodical 15 survey) 8 Large cargo vessel 17 Page i CHAPTER III A HULL CONSTRUCTION, MACHINERY, ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS AND FITTINGS - CATEGORY A VESSELS PART 1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS IIIA-1 PART 2 HULL CONSTRUCTION 1 1 Main deck construction 1 2 Bulkheads 1 3 Closing appliances, freeing ports 2 4 Protection of passengers and crew 2 5 Flooring 3 6 Marking of hull 3 PART 3 MACHINERY INSTALLATION 3 7 Main engine, auxiliary engine and gear box 3 8 Engine fittings 4 9 Propeller shafting 5 10 Engine room 5 11 Nature of fuel 6 12 Tanks 6 13 Pumping and piping arrangement 7 14 Bilge pumping arrangement 7 15 Compressed air system 8 16 Anchors, cables and windlass 9 17 Steering system 9 18 Wheelhouse - engine room communication 9 19 Installation for prevention of oil pollution 10 20 Pollution prevention for vessels carrying noxious liquid 13 substances in bulk PART 4 ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION 13 21 Electrical power source 13 22 Precautions against shock, fire and other hazards of electrical origin 14 PART 5 REFRIGERATION INSTALLATION 15 23 Refrigerating chamber and refrigerating machinery 15 CHAPTER III B HULL CONSTRUCTION, MACHINERY, ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS AND FITTINGS - CATEGORY B VESSELS PART 1 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS IIIB-1 Page ii PART 2 HULL CONSTRUCTION 1 1 Hull and bulkheads 1 2 Closing appliances, freeing ports 2 3 Protection of passengers and crew 2 4 Flooring 2 5 Marking of hull 2 PART 3 MACHINERY INSTALLATION 2 6 Main engine and engine fitting 2 7 Engine room 3 8 Nature of fuel 3 9 Tanks 3 10 Pumping and piping arrangement 4 11 Bilge pumping arrangement 4 12 Compressed air system 4 13 Wheelhouse - engine room communication 4 14 Oil pollution prevention installation 4 PART 4 ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION 4 15 Electrical installations 4 CHAPTER IV FREEBOARD AND STABILITY 1 Freeboard assignment, certification, intact stability IV-1 2 Damage stability 6 3 Inclining experiment 6 4 Lightweight survey 7 5 Determination of deadweight and its effects 7 6 Stability information booklet 7 7 Permanent ballast 8 8 Lashing of cargo 8 9 Modification onboard 8 10 Towing 8 CHAPTER V PASSENGER AND CREW ACCOMMODATION 1 General requirements V-1 2 Deck areas disallowed as passengers spaces 1 3 Maximum carrying capacity and seating 2 Page iii 4 Stairway, passageway, door and exit in passenger space 3 5 Ventilation, lighting, deck sheathing and insulation in passenger 4 space 6 Sanitary apparatus 5 7 Public address system 5 8 Boarding facility on ferry vessel 5 9 Marking in passenger space 5 CHAPTER VI FIRE PROTECTION AND FIRE-FIGHTING APPARATUS 1 Definitions VI-1 2 Fire-fighting apparatus, type and quantity 2 3 Fire pumps 3 4 Fire main, water service pipes and hydrants 4 5 Fire hoses, nozzles, etc 5 6 Location and arrangement of water pumps for other fire 5 extinguishing system 7 Fixed fire extinguishing system not required by the Survey 6 Regulation 8 Fire extinguishers 6 9 Firemen’s outfits 7 10 Means for stopping machinery, shutting off oil fuel suction pipes and 7 closing of openings 11 Fire control plans 8 12 Availability of the fire-fighting apparatus 8 13 Structural fire protection 8 CHAPTER VII LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES AND ARRANGEMENTS 1 Definitions VII-1 2 General 1 3 Replacement of life-saving appliances 2 4 Operational readiness, maintenance, inspection and servicing 2 5 Survival craft muster and embarkation arrangements 3 6 Stowage of survival craft and buoyant apparatus 3 7 Launching stations 4 8 Survival craft launching arrangements 4 9 Stowage of lifebuoys 4 Page iv 10 Stowage of life jackets 4 11 Stowage and packing of pyrotechnic distress signals 5 12 Operating instructions for survival craft and their launching controls 5 13 Manning of survival craft 5 14 Requirement of life-saving appliances and radiocommunications 5 equipment for fishing vessels CHAPTER VIII LIGHTS, SHAPES AND SOUND SIGNALS 1 General VIII-1 2 Definitions 1 3 Alternative lights 1 4 Lights and sound signals 1 5 Positioning of light signals 4 CHAPTER IX TONNAGE MEASUREMENT PART 1 GENERAL IX-1 1 Application 1 2 Method of tonnage measurement 1 PART 2 ASCERTAINMENT OF TONNAGE 2 3 Vessels of 24m in length and above 2 4 Wooden fishing vessels, primitive transportation vessels of any 2 length and other vessels of less than 24m in length CHAPTER X SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR VESSELS CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS PART 1 HULL CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT X-1 1 Hull construction 1 2 Windlass 1 3 Signals 1 4 Notices 2 PART 2 CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS IN PACKAGED FORM 2 OR IN SOLID FORM IN BULK 5 Regulatory requirements 2 6 Dumb steel lighters carrying packaged dangerous goods in freight 2 containers Page v PART 3 CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS IN LIQUID FORM IN 4 BULK 7 Carriage of flammable cargoes 4 8 Carriage of dangerous liquid chemicals 4 CHAPTER XI VESSELS BUILT TO CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY’S RULES AND REGULATIONS