MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) (USE OF SIGNALS OF DISTRESS) REGULATIONS

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) (USE OF SIGNALS OF DISTRESS) REGULATIONS

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SAFETY) (USE OF SIGNALS OF
DISTRESS) REGULATIONS



(Cap. 369, section 100)

[19 May 1989]

L.N. 141 of 1989

1. Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Use of
Signals of Distress) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

'signal of distress' means any of the signals of distress prescribed by regulation

4 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Signals of Distress and Prevention of

Collisions) Regulations (Cap. 369 sub. leg.) for use by ships as signals of

distress.

3. Use of signals of distress

(1) No signal of distress shall be used by any ship unless the master of the
ship so orders.

(2) The master of a ship shall not order any signal of distress to be used by his
ship unless he is satisfied

(a)that his ship is in serious and imminent danger, or that another ship
or an aircraft is in serious and imminent danger and cannot of itself
send that signal; and

(b)that the ship in danger (whether his own ship or another ship) or the
aircraft in danger, as the case may be, requires immediate assistance
in addition to any assistance then available to it.

(3) The master of a ship which has sent any signal of distress by means of
radio or other means, shall cause that signal to be revoked by all appropriate means
as soon as he is satisfied that the ship or aircraft to which the signal relates is no
longer in need of assistance.

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