Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Port) Regulations 1997
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
PRELIMINARY
1 Citation and commencement
2 Definitions
3 Information required by Port Master or Authority prior to arrival or departure of vessel or while vessel is in port
4 Change of ownership or agency
DISTRESS, EMERGENCY AND SAFETY REGULATIONS
5 Fire, stranding, grounding or collision
6 Emergency or accident
7 Inquiry
8 Distress
9 Adequate crew on board
10 Secured moorings alongside
11 Responsibility for insecure moorings
12 Responsibility for safety when alongside
13 Use of searchlight
14 Restrictions on use of bright lights
15 Prohibition on smoking and conditions for carrying out repairs on board vessel
16 Access to vessel
SIGNALS
17 Exhibition of navigational lights, shapes and signals
18 Use of sound signals in port
19 Display of national colours
RADIO COMMUNICATION
20 Definitions and application
21 Vessel to have radiotelephone
22 Radiotelephone to be listened to
23 Direction to master of vessel
24 Exemption
25 Failure to comply with regulations
26 Report
27 Compliance with direction
CONTROL OF NAVIGATION
28 Collision Regulations applicable to vessels navigating or at anchor
29 Restricted entry into Keppel Harbour, East Johore Strait and Damar Laut Channel and Jurong River
30 Restriction on movement in wharves and docks
31 Prohibition of vessels other than harbour craft securing alongside one another
32 Crossing main fairway
33 Negligent navigation prohibited
34 Foul berth
35 Laid-up vessels
36 Port Master may require vessel to leave port
37 Damaged vessels entering port
VESSELS BERTHED ALONGSIDE
38 Berthing at private wharves
SPECIFIED PLACES FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING CARGO AND PUBLIC LANDING PLACES
39 Authorised piers and places for discharging or loading cargo
40 Loading or discharging of Class ‘A’ petroleum
41 Loading or discharging of Group I dangerous goods
42 Public landing places
SPECIAL ANCHORAGES
43 Special anchorages
44 Ship to ship transfer prohibited
PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
45 Fairways and Prohibited Anchorage Areas
46 No vessel to make fast to any bridge or railing
47 Obstruction of anchorage, fairway or wharf
48 Vessels not to remain at special anchorage for longer than necessary
PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS IN HEIGHT RESTRICTED AREA
49 Prohibitions and restrictions in Height Restricted Area
OBSTRUCTIONS
50 Mooring of hulks
51 Rafts of logs and timber
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
52 Launching of new vessels
53 Breaking-up vessels
54 Submarine cables and pipelines
55 Vessels under fumigation
56 Restriction on heating of combustible matter
TOWING OPERATIONS
57 Restriction on provision of towage and other assistance
58 Authority to be engaged for towage and other assistance
59 Conditions of towage and assistance by other persons
BOARDING, BERTHING OR PROCEEDING ALONGSIDE VESSELS
60 Boarding, berthing or proceeding alongside vessels
61 Boarding of vessels
REGULATION OF NAVIGATION IN RIVERS
62 Speed limits
63 General prohibitions
MISCELLANEOUS
64 Unauthorised trading, hawking or provision of services
65 Pollution of port waters
66 Emission of smoke
67 Use of rat guards
68 Use of efficient fenders
69 Projections from vessels
70 Engines to have efficient silencers
71 Discharging or loading from vessel underway
72 Offences in connection with lighthouse or other aid to navigation
73 Establishment of moorings and buoys
74 Supply of water to vessels
75 Persons under influence of alcohol or drugs
76 Responsibility of owner, agent, master or person-in-charge for observation of these Regulations
77 Authority may permit use of vessel or port otherwise than in accordance with these Regulations
78 Penalty
79 Application to Singapore Armed Forces
80 Revocation
81 Savings