### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Means of Access) Regulations 《商船(安全)(上落設施)規例》

5. Gangways
In every ship of 30 metres or more registered length (or, in the case of an unregistered ship, of 30 metres or more overall length) the employer shall ensure that there is carried on the ship a gangway which is appropriate to the deck layout, size, shape and maximum freeboard of the ship, and which complies with the specifications contained in section 2 of the Code.

6. Accommodation ladders
In every ship of 120 metres or more in registered length (or, in the case of an unregistered ship, of 120 metres or more overall length) the employer shall ensure that there is carried on the ship an accommodation ladder which is appropriate to the deck layout, size, shape and maximum freeboard of the ship, and which complies with the specifications contained in section 2 of the Code.

7. Portable and rope ladders
The employer and the master shall ensure that—
(a) a portable ladder is used for the purpose of access to the ship only where no safer means of access is reasonably practicable;
(b) a rope ladder is used only for the purpose of access between a ship with high freeboard and a ship with low freeboard or between a ship and a boat if no safer means of access is reasonably practicable;
(c) any rope ladder used for the purpose of access to a ship complies with the specifications contained in section 2.6 of the Code,
provided that the requirements of this regulation shall not affect the requirements of the Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Pilot Ladders and Hoists) Regulations (Cap. 369 sub. leg.)

8. Lifebuoys
The employer and the master shall ensure that—
(a) a life-buoy with a self-activating light; and
(b) a separate safety line attached to a quoit or similar device,
are provided ready for use at the point of access aboard the ship.

9. Safety nets
(1) The employer and master shall ensure that an adequate number of safety nets is carried on the ship or is otherwise readily available.
(2) The master shall ensure that where access equipment is in use and there is a risk of a person falling from that access equipment or from the ship or from the quayside immediately adjacent to the access equipment, a safety net is mounted in order to minimise the risk of injury.

10. Use of equipment
Where access equipment is provided in accordance with these regulations any person boarding or leaving the ship shall use that equipment except in emergencies.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Means of Access) Regulations 《商船(安全)(上落設施)規例》

11. Penalties
(1) Contravention of regulation 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 by an employer shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding $10,000 or on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or such fine, or both.
(2) Contravention of regulation 4, 7, 8 or 9 by a master shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding $5,000.
(3) Contravention of regulation 10 shall be an offence punishable only on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding $2,000.
(4) It shall be a defence for a person charged in respect of a contravention of regulation 4(1) or (2) or 9(2) to show that the requirements of the relevant regulation were complied with so far as was reasonably practicable.
(5) It shall be a defence for a person charged under these regulations to show that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.

12. Detention
Where the Director is satisfied that a ship, other than a Hong Kong ship, which is detained pursuant to section 117 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance (Cap. 369) does not comply with the safety requirements of these regulations, he may send a report to the government of the country in which the ship is registered and a copy thereof to the Director-General of the International Labour Office.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Gas Carriers) Regulations 《商船(安全)(氣體運輸船)規例》

1. Citation
(1) These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Gas Carriers) Regulations.
(2) (omitted as spent)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Gas Carriers) Regulations 《商船(安全)(氣體運輸船)規例》

3. Application
(1) These regulations apply, subject to subregulations (2) and (3) and regulation 11—
(a) to gas carriers which are constructed on or after 1 July 1986;
(b) to ships which are converted to being gas carriers on or after that date; and
(c) to gas carriers which were constructed before that date but which have undergone repairs, alterations or modifications of a major character on or after that date.
(2) Where a ship is constructed or adapted to carry one or more of the substances listed both in Chapter 17 of the IBC Code and in Chapter 19 of the 1983 IGC Code, 1993 IGC Code or 2014 IGC Code and is not constructed or adapted to carry any substance listed only in Chapter 19 of the 1983 IGC Code, 1993 IGC Code or 2014 IGC Code then these regulations shall not apply to that ship. (L.N. 420 of 1996; L.N. 74 of 2018)
(3) These regulations apply to ships specified in subregulation (1) which are—
(a) Hong Kong ships; or
(b) ships other than Hong Kong ships within the waters of Hong Kong.

4. Compliance with the 1983 IGC Code, 1993 IGC Code or 2014 IGC Code
(L.N. 74 of 2018)(1) Subject to subregulation (2), a ship to which these regulations apply shall be constructed, equipped and operated in accordance with the requirements relevant to it of Chapter 1, paragraphs 1.1.4.1 to 1.1.4.4, and Chapters 2 to 19 of the 1983 IGC Code, 1993 IGC Code or 2014 IGC Code that the ship is required to comply with under subregulation (3), (4) or (5). (L.N. 420 of 1996; L.N. 74 of 2018)
(2) If, after 22 May 2014, IMO adopts a specified resolution that affects the requirements of the 1983 IGC Code or 1993 IGC Code referred to in subregulation (1) (existing requirements

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Gas Carriers) Regulations 《商船(安全)(氣體運輸船)規例》

4A. Interpretation of Part II
In this Part—
1983 ship (1983年船舶) means a ship that is required to comply with the 1983 IGC Code under regulation 4;
1993 ship (1993年船舶) means a ship that is required to comply with the 1993 IGC Code under regulation 4;
2014 ship (2014年船舶) means a ship that is required to comply with the 2014 IGC Code under regulation 4.
(L.N. 74 of 2018)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Gas Carriers) Regulations 《商船(安全)(氣體運輸船)規例》

6. Power of Director in respect of appointments and delegations
(1) The Director may, in writing, appoint persons to be surveyors for the purposes of these regulations.
(2) A surveyor shall have such powers, functions and duties as are prescribed, respectively, in these regulations.
(3) The Director may, in writing, delegate to any public officer or class of public officers any of his powers, functions or duties under these regulations and may at any time revoke any such delegation.
(4) No delegation under subregulation (3) shall preclude the Director from exercising or performing at any time any power, function or duty so delegated.