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[接上页] (a) setting out details, obtained from the shipping documents submitted by the shipper, of the packaged goods on board including the correct technical name of the goods, their classification in accordance with section 8(2) and their weight or volume; and (b) showing details of the location in the ship where the goods are stowed.(2) The information required by subsection (1) may be contained in one combined list, manifest or stowage plan relating to both packaged dangerous goods and packaged marine pollutants, or in two such lists, manifests or stowage plans, one relating to dangerous goods and the other to marine pollutants. Where a combined document is used it shall show clearly which goods are dangerous goods and which are marine pollutants. (3) (a) Before a ship, carrying marine pollutants, departs from a port, the shipowner and master shall arrange for a copy of any such list, manifest or stowage plan of marine pollutants to be kept on shore and it shall be the duty of the shipowner to retain it there until the goods are discharged from the ship or for a period of 6 months from loading in the case of such goods not being discharged within that time. (b) A copy of the list, manifest or stowage plan referred to in subsection (1) shall be submitted to the Director before departure.(4) The master shall also carry in the ship any additional special documents where required by the IMDG Code for the carriage of packaged dangerous goods. (5) Any such list, manifest or stowage plan and any additional special documents required for the acceptance of such goods for carriage in the ship shall be kept available for reference or inspection on board the ship until the goods have been discharged from the ship. (6) A master of a ship carrying packaged goods who fails to cause a list, manifest or stowage plan or additional special documents to be carried in the ship or kept available as required by subsection (5) commits an offence. (7) If there is any breach of subsection (3) the shipowner and master commit an offence. (Enacted 1994) Cap 413H s 11 Packaging of dangerous goods and marine pollutants (1) The packaging of packaged goods shall be in accordance with the IMDG Code. Such packaging shall, if required by the IMDG Code, be performance tested as specified in the Code. (2) Packaged goods shall not be taken on board any ship for carriage in that ship if the shipowner or master knows or ought to know that the goods are not packaged in such a manner as to withstand the ordinary risk of carriage by sea. (3) A shipowner or master or shipper of such goods who fails to comply with the provisions of this section commits an offence. (Enacted 1994) Cap 413H s 12 Marking and labelling (1) Dangerous goods or marine pollutants which are contained in a package shall not be taken on board a ship for carriage in that ship unless the conditions in this section are satisfied. (2) (a) Packages containing dangerous goods or marine pollutants shall be durably marked in accordance with the IMDG Code. (b) Packages containing dangerous goods or marine pollutants shall be provided with labels or stencils of labels or placards where specified in the IMDG Code. (c) The method of marking the correct technical name and of affixing labels or applying stencils of labels or placards on packages containing dangerous goods or marine pollutants shall be such that the information marked, affixed or applied will remain legible after the package has been immersed for 3 months in the sea or, if the package itself disintegrates before the end of that period, for as long as the package will last. Where the outer material of the package is such that it will not survive at least 3 months' immersion in the sea, any inner receptacles which will survive such immersion shall be durably marked with an indication of the nature of the danger to which the goods give rise, which indication may be given by any suitable means including (but not restricted to) an IMDG Code Class symbol or marine pollutant mark, or both, of an appropriate size. (d) Without prejudice to the above requirements, where the goods are contained in a freight container, vehicle, portable tank or tank container, the cargo transport unit in which the goods are contained shall bear conspicuously on its exterior distinctive placards or other appropriate marking, in accordance with the IMDG Code.(3) Any breach of the requirement of this section relating to the marking, labelling or placarding of packaged goods shall be an offence on the part of the shipper of those goods. (4) A shipowner or master who accepts dangerous goods or marine pollutants to be taken on board a ship in any package which has not been marked and labelled, or placarded as provided for in this section commits an offence. (Enacted 1994) Cap 413H s 13 Stowage PART III STOWAGE AND CARRIAGE (1) Packaged goods taken on board any ship for carriage in that ship shall be stowed, segregated and secured in accordance with the IMDG Code. |