Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2014

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Dec 2014

No. S 865

Merchant Shipping Act

(CHAPTER 179)

Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment No. 2)
Regulations 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 100 and 116 of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2015.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations (Rg 5) is amended by deleting the definition of “Organisation” and substituting the following definitions:

“ “Organisation” means the International Maritime Organization;

“present Protocol” means the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966;”.

Amendment of Annex I

3. Annex I of the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the words “a Recognised Organisation” in regulation 1(2), the words “, which is authorised by the Director”;

(b)

by deleting regulation 2-1 and substituting the following regulation:

“

Regulation 2-1

Authorisation of Recognised Organisations

(1) The Director shall authorise Recognised Organisations in accordance with the provisions of the Convention and with parts 1 and 2 of the Code for Recognized Organizations (RO Code) as adopted by the Organisation by resolution MSC.349(92), taking into account the guidance provided in part 3 of the RO Code.

(2) A Recognised Organisation shall comply with such provisions in part 2 of the RO Code as may be applicable to it.

(3) The Director and any authorised organisation shall be bound by any amendments to part 1 or 2 of the RO Code, and the Director shall be guided by any amendments to part 3 of the RO Code, provided that —

(a)	the amendments to part 1 or 2 of the RO Code are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with the provisions of article VI of the present Protocol;

(b)	the amendments to part 3 of the RO Code are adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee in accordance with its Rules of Procedure; and

(c)	the amendments adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee and the Marine Environment Protection Committee are identical and come into force or take effect at the same time, as appropriate.

”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “officer or surveyor acting under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention” in regulation 9 and substituting the words “Director or officer of any Recognised Organisation”.

[G.N. Nos. S 12/2005; S 690/2006; S 403/2008; S 330/2010; S 834/2013; S 430/2014]

Made on 30 December 2014.

LUCIEN WONG

Chairman,
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.

[MPA 46/02.C17.V11/LSK; AG/LLRD/SL/179/2010/4 Vol. 3]

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