### Merchant Shipping (Registration) (Tonnage) Regulations 《商船(註冊)(噸位)規例》

15. Ascertainment of tonnage and certification
(1) New Ships—
(a) The Certifying Authority may, at the request of the Administration of a Contracting Government, ascertain the gross and net tonnages of a new ship in accordance with Part II of these regulations and issue to the owner an International Tonnage Certificate (1969). In such cases the certificate shall be endorsed to the effect that it has been issued at the request of the Government of the state whose flag the ship is or will be flying, and a copy of the certificate and the calculations of the tonnages shall be transmitted to the requesting Government as soon as possible.
(b) The Certifying Authority may, at the request of an owner of a new ship flying the flag of an Administration of a non Contracting Government ascertain in gross and net tonnages of the ship in accordance with Part II of these regulations and issue a Certificate of Hong Kong Tonnage Measurement. In such cases the certificate will bear the endorsement “for use only whilst within the waters of Hong Kong”.
(2) Existing Ships—
(a) The Certifying Authority may, at the request of the Administration of a Contracting Government, ascertain the gross and net tonnages of an existing ship in accordance with Part II of these regulations and issue to the owner an International Tonnage Certificate (1969). In such cases the certificate shall be endorsed to the effect that it has been issued at the request of the Government of the state whose flag the ship is or will be flying, and a copy of the certificate and the calculations of the tonnages shall be transmitted to the requesting Government as soon as possible.
(b) The Certifying Authority may, at the request of the owner of any existing ship, ascertain the gross and net tonnages of the ship in accordance with Part IV of these regulations until 17 July 1994. In such cases a Hong Kong Tonnage Certificate shall be issued.
(74 of 1990 Sch. 5; 23 of 1998 s. 2)

### Merchant Shipping (Registration) (Tonnage) Regulations 《商船(註冊)(噸位)規例》

16. Application of Part VI
(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”.

17. Failure to deliver up certificate
Any owner or master who fails without reasonable cause to deliver up a certificate for cancellation as required by regulation 10(1) or paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 5 hereto commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000.
(74 of 1990 Sch. 5)

18. Illegal carriage of goods or stores
If goods or stores are carried in a permanently closed in space on board ship in contravention of paragraph 17(3) of Schedule 5 hereto the master and the owner of the ship commit an offence and are each liable to a fine of $5,000.
(74 of 1990 Sch. 5)

### Merchant Shipping (Registration) (Tonnage) Regulations 《商船(註冊)(噸位)規例》

19. Validation of existing certificates
Any International Tonnage certificate issued in respect of a ship for registration in Hong Kong in accordance with the provisions of the Convention under the authority of the Government of Hong Kong prior to the coming into operation of then regulations shall be accepted and regarded for all purposes as having the same validity as one issued under Part II of these regulations.

### Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance 《商船(註冊)條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2022)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance.
(2) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 1 of 2022)