Ette &O. 956 of 21£T September, 1959
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Supplement jBo. 2 to C^e $ale$tme d3a?ette &o. 956 of 21£t September, 1959. DEFENCE (MILITARY COMMANDERS) REGULATIONS, 1938. NOTICE. IN VIRTUE of the powers vested in me by the Defence (Military Commanders) Regulations, 1938, I, MICHAEL GEORGE HENRY BARKER, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan, with the consent of the High Commissioner, do hereby appoint MAJOR GEORGE WYNDHAM CLAUDE MONTGOMERY to be Military Commander of the Area or Place known as the Jordan Valley, namely that portion of the Jordan Valley which is within the boundaries of Palestine less such portion thereof as is situate within the Area or Place known as the Jerusalem District, from the eighteenth day of September, 1939, and until further notice, vice MAJOR RAYMOND SWINBURNE YARDE BULLER, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. M. G. H. BARKER Lieutenant-General, General Officer Commanding, 15th September, 1939. British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan. — 859 — — 860 — PORTS ORDINANCE. IRAQ PETROLEUM COMPANY CONVENTION AND AGREEMENTS ORDINANCE, 1939. RULES MADE BY THE HIGH COMMISSIONER IN COUNCIL. IN EXERCISE of the powers vested in him by section 17 of the Cap. 114. Ports Ordinance and by Article 8 of Part I of the Second Schedule to the Iraq Petroleum Company Convention and Agreements Ord• No. 30 of 1939. inance, 1939, and all other powers enabling him, the High Com• missioner in Council has made the following rules :— Citation. 1. These rules may be cited as the Petroleum (Loading and Discharging at Haifa) Rules, 1939. Interpretation. 2. For the purpose of these rules — (a) "Petroleum" and "Dangerous Petroleum" shall have the definitions ascribed to them in the Petroleum Regulations, Cap. 143. 1934, made under the Trades and Industries (Regulation) Ordinance; (b) "Petroleum Ship" shall mean any ship having on beard or constructed to carry petroleum as cargo. GENERAL. 3. The Iraq Petroleum Company Limited, hereinafter referred to as the Company, shall have facilities in the Port of Haifa for loading crude petroleum from (a) submarine loading berths, and (b) the oil dock in Haifa Harbour. 4. The OIL DOCK forming part of the Harbour at Haifa, and that part of the water surface in the Bay of Acre, demarcated by appropriate beacons on land, some one and half miles north of the Harbour of Haifa and reserved for loading from SUBMARINE PIPELINES, are within the zones of the operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd., and are hereby declared DANGER ZONES. 5. Petroleum ships shall advise their prospective movements by wireless as soon as they can make contact with shore installa• tions, but wireless communication is forbidden during loading and discharging operations. 6. While loading or discharging, petroleum ships at the sub• marine berths or the oil dock shall fly a red flag by day or exhibit a red light at night, situated not less than 20 feet above the deck so that the signal shall be visible all round the horizon. This shall apply also when loaded petroleum ships are moved in or out of the oil dock. — 861 — 7. No craft excepting tugs or launches of a type approved by the Company shall ply to ships at anchor within the zones reserved for submarine pipeline loading or in the oil dock. 8. Tugs manoeuvring petroleum ships containing dangerous petroleum or ships not certified gas free shall also be treated as dangerous vessels and shall fly a red flag by day or exhibit a red light by night from a conspicuous position, and shall observe generally and so far as they apply the safety precautions as laid down in these rules. 9. Ships using the submarine loading berths or the oil dock shall arrive with clean ballast, and a declaration in accordance with form Appendix A shall be filled in by Masters of Petroleum Ships entering Port water, certifying that the water ballast which it is intended to discharge within the Port limits is entirely free of oil. Ashes, oil, oily water, or other refuse shall not be dis• charged overboard at the submarine berths or in the oil dock or within Port limits. 10. Vessels' scuppers shall be effectively plugged during load• ing and discharging operations. Leakage or spillage aboard ship shall not be swept or washed overboard. 11. Petroleum ships may undertake loading and discharging operations at any hour. 12. Loading or discharging shall not commence until :— (a) The Master or Chief Officer has certified in writing to the responsible shore official that all necessary valves are open and that the ship is in a proper condition to receive or dis• charge cargo, and (b) The Master or Chief Officer has certified in writing that all ships' seacocks are closed or blank flanged except those required for water circulation purposes, and that these pre• sent rules are being and will be observed. 13. Throughout the period of loading and discharging opera• tions, the following conditions will be enforced :— (a) A responsible ship's officer shall be on watch on board; (b) A capable member of the ship's crew shall be stationed by the ship's control valves to which the loading or discharging hoses are connected; (c) A responsible member of the shore staff shall stand by the valves at the shore end of the pipes. 14. No lamps, electric or otherwise, except of a standard type approved by a recognised Ships' Classification Society or an Tnsu- ranee Company, or an appropriate Government authority, as the case may be, shall be used either on board or within the danger zones. Wandering leads may not be used on ships, or within the Company's shore or oil dock areas, except of an approved arm• oured type electrically continuous with the lamp holder, and in such cases the use of wandering leads must receive the special authority of a responsible Company's official. 15. Stores shall not be unloaded or taken on board vessels whilst loading or discharging petroleum except with the Company's permission. 16. Chipping, scaling and scrapping of steel work, or any work likely to cause sparks, shall be prohibited on any ships berthed at the submarine berths or in the oil dock. No iron or steel hammers or other instruments capable of causing a spark shall be used for the purpose of opening or closing the hatches or tank lids of Pet• roleum ships. In the event of any urgent repair work being necessary before the vessel sails, prior written authority shall be obtained from the Company before such work is done. 17. No person shall be allowed within the Company's shore or oil dock areas, unless in possession of a pass signed by an autho• rised official of the Company. 18. No person shall carry into the Company's danger zones matches, automatic lighters or any appliance whatsoever for pro• ducing ignition, and all persons entering these zones are liable to be searched for such articles. 19. The Company's uniformed watchmen are invested with special powers and may detain anyone loitering in the precincts of the oil dock or of the Company's shore areas. 20. The Port Manager or his representative shall have power to board ships lying within the danger zones to ensure that loading and discharging regulations are faithfully observed. 21. In special circumstances the Company may consider it necessary to impose additional safety measures or restrictions in respect of ships loading or discharging at the submarine lines and in the oil dock, and in such cases Masters of ships shall conform thereto. OIL DOCK. 22. Ships using the oil dock shall enter and leave under their own power assisted by tugs. Such ships when in ballast shall go alongside with the minimum quantity of ballast which shall be pumped ashore into ballast tanks. Fires shall be thoroughly — 863 — extinguished as soon as ships are moored and ballast, if any, dis• charged, and thereafter shore steam shall be used. 23. No naked light or fires shall be allowed on any ship along• side the berths in the oil dock during loading and discharging operations. 24. Galleys and messrooms are provided on shore adjacent to the oil dock for use of ships' personnel and crews. 25. Smoking is prohibited on ships in the oil dock and within the prohibited fenced areas of the oil dock. 26. Ships berthed in the oil dock shall establish and maintain telephonic communications with the shore station with which they are working and the telephone shall be tested from time to time. 27. The boom shall be closed across the entrance of the oil dock at all times except when vessels are entering or leaving the oil dock and no pumping of petroleum products from ship to shore or vice versa shall be allowed whilst the boom is not in a closed position. SUBMARINE LOADING BERTHS. 28. Communications from submarine loading berths to shore are by telephone, flag, light and whistle signals. Weather condi• tions may on occasion make the telephone contacts less serviceable at the submarine berths so that ships should in addition to the telephone, establish and maintain shore communications by means of visual or sound signals. All means of communications should be tested from time to time while ships are at loading berths. 29. Ships shall enter and leave the submarine berths under their owm power. At the discretion of the Master, a ship's main boilers and donkey boilers, fires and galley fires may remain alight during loading operations at the submarine berths. 30.