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

97. Radio regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with radio equipment of such a nature (but not including shipborne navigational equipment) as may be prescribed by the regulations and to maintain such a radio service and to carry such number of radio officers or operators, of such grades and possessing such qualifications, as may be so prescribed; and the regulations may contain provisions for preventing, so far as practicable, electrical interference by other apparatus on board with the equipment provided under the regulations. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; 6 of 2000 s. 17; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(2) Regulations made under this section shall include such requirements as appear to the Secretary to implement such provisions of the Convention as relate to radio installations. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; 6 of 2000 s. 17; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of this section, radio regulations may—
(a) prescribe the duties of radio officers and operators, including the duty of keeping a radio log-book;
(b) apply to any radio log-book required to be kept under the regulations any of the provisions of any regulations with respect to official log-books made under the Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance (Cap. 478); (Amended 44 of 1995 s. 143)
(c) prescribe requirements for such portable radio apparatus as boats or life rafts may be required to carry by the life-saving appliances regulations.
(4) If any radio officer or operator contravenes any regulations made in pursuance of subsection (3)(a), he commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 1 and if the radio regulations are contravened in any other respect in relation to any ship, 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)
(5) This section applies to—
(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and
(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.

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

98. Navigational equipment regulations
(1) The Secretary may make regulations— (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(a) requiring ships to which this section applies to be provided with such navigational equipment as may be specified in the regulations and prescribing requirements which such navigational equipment is to comply with;
(b) prescribing requirements which navigational equipment other than such as are provided in pursuance of regulations made under paragraph (a), are to comply with when carried in ships to which this section applies;
(c) prescribing requirements which apparatus designed for the purpose of transmitting or reflecting signals to or from navigational equipment is to comply with if it is apparatus in Hong Kong or apparatus off the shores of Hong Kong but maintained from Hong Kong,
and the requirements prescribed under paragraph (a) or (b) may include requirements relating to the position and method of fitting the navigational equipment.
(2) If a ship to which this section applies proceeds, or attempts to proceed, to sea without carrying such navigational equipment as it is required to carry by regulations made under subsection (1) or carrying navigational equipment not complying with such regulations, 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)
(3) If any person establishes or operates any such apparatus as is mentioned in subsection (1)(c) and the apparatus does not comply with regulations made thereunder, he commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(4) This section applies to—
(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and
(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.

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

100. Regulations in respect of distress signals and navigational warnings
(1) The Secretary may make regulations prescribing— (Amended 56 of 1990 s. 10; 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(a) what signals shall be used by ships as signals of distress;
(b) the circumstances in which, and the purposes for which, any such signal is to be used and the circumstances in which it is to be revoked; and
(c) the circumstances and manner in which warnings of navigational dangers shall be reported.
(2) Regulations made under this section may be made to apply to all ships registered in Hong Kong wherever they may be. (Added 56 of 1990 s. 10)
(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. 10)

101. Regulations in respect of carriage of dangerous goods
(1) The Secretary may make regulations for regulating in the interests of safety the carriage of dangerous goods in ships to which this section applies. (Amended 20 of 1996 s. 9; L.N. 106 of 2002; L.N. 130 of 2007; 10 of 2009 s. 38)
(1A) Regulations made under subsection (1) 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. (Added 56 of 1990 s. 11. Amended E.R. 5 of 2021)
(2) If any of the regulations made under subsection (1) are not complied with—
(a) (Repealed 56 of 1990 s. 11)(b) the ship shall be deemed for the purposes of section 67 to be unsafe by reason of improper loading.
(3) This section applies to—
(a) ships registered in Hong Kong; and
(b) other ships while they are within the waters of Hong Kong.