| Citation and commencement |
| 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Port) Regulations 1997 and shall come into operation on 9th April 1997. |
2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“authorised officer” means —| (a) | any duly authorised employee of the Authority; | | (b) | any police or customs officer; or | | (c) | any person authorised by the Authority in writing for the purposes of these Regulations; |
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| “Class ‘A’ petroleum” means any petroleum that has a flash point less than 23° Celsius and includes liquefied petroleum gas; |
| “Collision Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Collisions at Sea) Regulations (Cap. 179, Rg 10); |
| “control station” means any Signal Station and any station whose purpose is to aid the direction, or control, of movements of shipping; |
“dangerous cargoes” means any of the following cargoes, whether packaged, carried in bulk packagings or in bulk within the scope of the following regulations: | (a) | oils covered by Annex I of MARPOL 73/78; | | (b) | gases covered by the Codes for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk; | | (c) | noxious liquid substances or chemicals, including wastes covered by the Codes for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk and Annex II of MARPOL 73/78; | | (d) | dangerous, hazardous and harmful substances, materials and articles including environmentally hazardous substances (marine pollutants) and wastes, covered by the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code; and | | (e) | solid bulk materials, possessing chemical hazards and solid bulk materials hazardous only in bulk (MHBs) including wastes, covered by Appendix B of the Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes, |
| and includes any empty uncleaned packagings (such as tank-containers, receptacles, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), bulk packagings, portable tanks or tank vehicles) which previously contained dangerous cargoes, unless the packagings, have been sufficiently cleaned of residue of the dangerous cargoes, and purged of vapours, so as to nullify any hazard, or have been filled with a non-dangerous substance; |
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| “dangerous goods” means dangerous cargoes in packaged form and includes the goods classified as dangerous goods in the First Schedule to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Dangerous Goods, Petroleum and Explosives) Regulations 1997 (G.N. No. S 182/97); |
| “Group I dangerous goods” means the goods classified in the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (Dangerous Goods, Petroleum and Explosives) Regulations 1997 as Group I dangerous goods; |
| “height”, in relation to a vessel, means the height of the vessel measured vertically from the waterline of the vessel to the highest point of the vessel including its cargo, structure or equipment on board; |
| “Keppel Harbour” means the area of the port from the western extremity of Tanjong Rimau on Sentosa in a straight line to Berlayar Beacon thence along the Singapore coastline to a position Latitude 01 degrees 16.265 minutes N Longitude 103 degrees 51.43 minutes E thence in a straight line to Outer Shoal Beacon thence in a straight line to Buran Beacon thence along northern coastline of Sentosa to Tanjong Rimau; |
| “laid-up”, in relation to any vessel, means the vessel is not under repair or actively employed; |
| “main fairway” means any area of the waters of the port specified as a Prohibited Anchorage Area in the Third Schedule; |
| “MARPOL 73/78” means the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (including its protocols, annexes and appendixes) which constitutes attachment 1 to the final act of the International Conference on Marine Pollution signed in London on 2nd November 1973, as modified and added to by the Protocol of 1978; |
| “oil terminal” means any place having a permanent means of loading or discharging petroleum, whether in bulk or packaged, into or from any vessel; |
“passenger” means any person carried in a ship, except —| (a) | a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of the ship; | | (b) | a person on board the ship either —| (i) | pursuant to the obligation on the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons; or | | (ii) | by reason of any circumstance that neither the master nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled; and |
| | (c) | a child below one year of age; |
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“petroleum” includes —| (a) | the liquids commonly known by the names of Rock oil, Rangoon oil, Burma oil, kerosene, paraffin oil, petrol, gasoline, benzol, benzoline, benzine or naptha; and | | (b) | any like flammable liquid, whether —| (i) | a natural product; or | | (ii) | a product made from petroleum, coal, schist, shale or any other bituminous substance; |
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| “sea-going vessel” means any vessel going beyond Singapore port limits; |
| “towage” means any operation in connection with holding, pushing, pulling, or moving, or attending for that purpose, any vessel; |
“underway”, in relation to a vessel, means that the vessel is not —| (a) | at anchor; | | (b) | moored or berthed alongside a wharf or jetty; | | (c) | made fast to the shore; or | | (d) | aground; |
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| “vehicle” means any vehicle whether mechanically propelled or otherwise. |
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| Information required by Port Master or Authority prior to arrival or departure of vessel or while vessel is in port |
3.—(1) The owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of a vessel entering or leaving the port shall —| (a) | prior to the arrival or departure of the vessel; or | | (b) | if the vessel is within the port, prior to any movement of the vessel, |
| inform the Port Master or the Authority, in the manner determined by the Port Master or the Authority, of the particulars of the vessel including its type, draught, length, beam and height. |
| (2) The master or person-in-charge of any vessel required to be under pilotage shall, prior to the movement of the vessel, give the pilot information as to the type of vessel, its draught, length, beam and height, its manoeuvring characteristics, the peculiarities of the vessel and any abnormal circumstances of the vessel which may affect its safe navigation. |
(3) The owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of a vessel shall inform the Port Master —| (a) | of the estimated time of arrival or departure of the vessel; and | | (b) | while the vessel is in the port, of the position of the vessel. |
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| (4) The owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of a vessel shall give the Authority all the information the Authority may reasonably require relating to the cargo on board, to be loaded on, or to be discharged from, the vessel. |
(5) If the Port Master or a pilot is not satisfied with the information provided under paragraph (1) or (2), the owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of the vessel shall —| (a) | immediately ascertain the accuracy of the information required; and | | (b) | if the information relates to the height of the vessel, measure the height of the vessel, if necessary. |
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| (6) In the case of a tow, the information required under paragraph (1) or (2) shall be provided by the owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of the tow. |
| (7) Any owner, agent, master or person-in-charge of a vessel who contravenes or fails to comply with paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000. |
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| Change of ownership or agency |
4.—(1) An owner or agent of a vessel who informs or represents to the Authority, whether by himself or through any agent, that he is the owner or agent of the vessel must inform the Authority immediately of any change of ownership or agency, as the case may be, that occurs while the vessel is in the port.| (2) If an owner or agent of a vessel fails to comply with paragraph (1), he shall be liable, notwithstanding the change of ownership or agency, to pay to the Authority any dues, rates and fees that an owner or agent of a vessel, as the case may be, is liable to pay under any written law up to the time that he informs the Authority of the change of ownership or agency. |
| (3) Nothing in this regulation affects the liability of a new owner or agent to pay any dues, rates and fees that an owner or agent of a vessel, as the case may be, is liable to pay under any written law but the Authority is not entitled to recover the same set of dues, rates and fees twice. |
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