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

93. Collision regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(2) The collision regulations may—
(a) regulate—
(i) the lights and shapes to be carried and exhibited;
(ii) the sound signals to be carried and used; and
(iii) the steering and sailing rules to be observed,
by all ships registered in Hong Kong, wherever they may be; and
(b) provide for the prevention of collisions at sea—
(i) between seaplanes on the surface of the water; and
(ii) between ships and seaplanes on the surface of the water.
(3) In this section ship (船、船舶) includes a junk and a trawler to which Part XII of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap. 281) applies. (Added 56 of 1990 s. 8)

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

94. Passenger ship construction regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations prescribing the requirements with which the hull, equipment and machinery of and fuel used in passenger ships registered in Hong Kong shall comply. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred on the Secretary under subsection (1), the passenger ship construction regulations— (Amended L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(a) may require the provision in such ships—
(i) of plans exhibited as provided by or under the regulations, and of other information, relating to the boundaries of watertight compartments, the openings therein, the means of closing such openings and the arrangements for correcting any list due to flooding; and
(ii) of information necessary for the guidance of the master in maintaining sufficient stability to enable the ship to withstand damage; and
(b) shall include such requirements as appear to the Secretary to be necessary to implement the provisions of the Convention prescribing the requirements which the hull, equipment and machinery of passenger ships shall comply with, except so far as those provisions are implemented by any other regulations made under this Ordinance. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(3) This section shall not operate to prejudice the generality of any power under any other enactment to prescribe the requirements with which passenger ships shall comply. (Replaced 20 of 1996 s. 2)
(4) If the passenger ship construction regulations are contravened in any respect in relation to a ship the owner or master of the ship commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

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

95. Regulations in respect of openings in passenger ships’ hulls and watertight bulkheads
(1) The Secretary may make regulations in respect of passenger ships registered in Hong Kong for all or any of the following matters— (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(a) for closing and keeping closed the openings in hulls and watertight bulkheads;
(b) for securing, keeping in place and inspecting contrivances for closing such openings;
(c) for operating the mechanisms or contrivances for closing any such openings and for drills in connexion with the operation thereof; and
(d) for requiring entry to be made in the official log-book or other record of passenger ships of any of such matters.
(2) If any regulation made under this section is contravened by any person the master of the passenger ship involved in the contravention commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)

96. Cargo ship construction and survey regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations prescribing the requirements for the hull, equipment and machinery of and the fuel used in ships to which section 11 applies and requiring any such ships which are registered in Hong Kong to be surveyed to such extent, in such manner and at such intervals as may be prescribed by the regulations.
(2) The cargo ship construction and survey regulations shall include such requirements as appear to the Secretary to be necessary to implement the provisions of the Convention relating to the hull, equipment and machinery of such ships, except as far as those provisions are implemented by any other regulations made under this Ordinance. 
(3) The cargo ship construction and survey regulations may—
(a) provide that—
(i) the contravention of any provision thereof shall be an offence; and
(ii) the owner, master or such other person as the regulations shall specify shall be guilty of the offence; and
(b) prescribe for such offence a penalty of a fine not exceeding level 4 or imprisonment for 2 years or both such fine and such imprisonment. (Replaced 56 of 1990 s. 9. Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)