Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Regulations

Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Regulations, 1997

Part 2 : Carriage of Packaged Dangerous Goods

13. Marking and labelling
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(1)Packaged dangerous goods may not be taken on board a ship for carriage in that ship unless the following conditions are satisfied:
(a)Packages containing dangerous goods must be durably marked in accordance with the IMDG Code and provided with labels or stencils of labels or placards where specified in the Code.
(b)The method of marking the correct technical name and of affixing labels or applying stencils of labels or placards or marine pollutant marks, as appropriate, on packages containing dangerous goods must be such that the information marked, affixed or applied will remain legible after the package has been immersed in the sea for three months 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 three months' immersion in the sea, any inner receptacles that will survive such immersion must be durably marked by any suitable means, including an IMDG Code Class symbol or marine pollutant mark or both, of an appropriate size, to indicate the nature of the danger to which the goods give rise.
(c)Without prejudice to the above conditions, 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 must bear conspicuously on its exterior distinctive placards or other appropriate marking in accordance with the IMDG Code.

 

(2)Any breach of this regulation relating to the marking, labelling or placarding of packaged dangerous goods is an offence on the part of the shipper of those goods.

 

(3)If a shipowner or master accepts dangerous goods to be taken on board a ship in any package that has not been marked and labelled or placarded in accordance with this regulation, he or she is guilty of an offence.