### Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance 《商船(安全)條例》

103. Regulations for testing anchor and chain cables
(1) The Secretary may make regulations with respect to the testing of anchors and chain cables for use in ships registered in Hong Kong, and such regulations may in particular— (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(a) prescribe the manner in which tests of anchors and cables are to be carried out, the tensile strains and breaking strains to be employed in such tests and the requirements to be fulfilled by equipment used for the purposes of such tests;
(b) provide for the marking of anchors and cables which have passed such tests and for the issue of certificates in respect of such anchors and cables;
(c) provide for the supervision of such tests and marking, and for the inspection of such equipment, by a Government surveyor appointed under section 5;
(d) (Repealed 20 of 1996 s. 3)(e) provide that the regulations shall not apply to anchors or cables of such classes or descriptions as may be specified in the regulations or which are exempted therefrom by the Director in accordance with any power in that behalf contained in the regulations.
(2) In this section anchor (錨) and chain cable (錨鏈) include any shackle attached to or intended to be used in connexion with the anchor or cable.

104. Regulations relating to carriage of grain
The Secretary may make regulations prescribing, in relation to the loading of ships generally or of ships of any class, any precautions which are necessary or reasonable precautions to prevent grain from shifting.
(Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance 《商船(安全)條例》

105. Deck cargo regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations prescribing requirements to be complied with where cargo is carried in any uncovered space on the deck of a ship to which Part IV applies; and different requirements may be so prescribed in relation to different descriptions of ships, different descriptions of cargo, different voyages or classes of voyage, different seasons of the year or any other different circumstances. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(2) If the load line regulations provide, either generally or in particular cases or classes of cases, for assigning special freeboards to ships which are to have effect only where a cargo of timber is carried, then, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the deck cargo regulations may prescribe special requirements to be complied with in circumstances where any such special freeboard has effect.
(3) In prescribing any such special requirements as are mentioned in subsection (2), the Secretary shall have regard in particular to Chapter IV of the Convention of 1966. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(4) If the deck cargo regulations are contravened—
(a) in the case of a ship registered in Hong Kong; or
(b) in the case of any other ship while the ship is within the waters of Hong Kong,
the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 4. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(5) For the purpose of securing compliance with the deck cargo regulations any person authorized in that behalf by the Director may inspect any ship to which Part IV applies which is carrying cargo in any uncovered space on its deck; and for the purposes of any such inspection any such person shall have all the powers conferred by section 115.

106. Nuclear ship regulations
The Secretary may make regulations with respect to ships provided with nuclear power plants for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Annex to the Convention.
(Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance 《商船(安全)條例》

108. Nautical publications
(1) The Secretary may make regulations specifying such charts, directions or information as are necessary or expedient for the safe operation of ships, and those regulations may require ships registered in Hong Kong, or such class of ships registered in Hong Kong as may be specified in the regulations, to carry, either at all times or on such voyages as may be specified in the regulations, copies of the charts, directions or information so specified. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(2) If a ship goes to sea, or attempts to go to sea without carrying copies of the charts, directions or information which it is required to carry by regulations under this section, the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 2. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

109. Regulations as to procedure, fees, etc. in courts of survey
The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations to provide for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to a court of survey and appeals thereto, and in particular with respect to the summoning of and procedure before the court, the requiring of security for costs and damages on an appeal under section 12 or section 68 and the amount and application of fees.
(Amended 10 of 2009 s. 29)