National Ports Act, 2005 (Act No. 12 of 2005)RulesPorts RulesChapter 3 : Health and SafetyPart A : Vessel Safety Measures65. Sparks and the lighting of fires |
| (1) | The master of a vessel in a port must take all necessary precautions to avoid the emission of sparks from his or her vessel, except where a hot work permit is issued in terms of rule 154. |
| (2) | No person may light a fire upon any wharf, jetty, stacking area, quay or at any other place where the lighting of fires is prohibited by notice, except with the permission of the Authority. |
| (3) | The Authority may impose conditions on any permission granted, to maintain safety, security, good order or to protect the environment. |
| (4) | No person may smoke, ignite a match or lighters, or otherwise create or allow a fire or flame in any hold or at any open hatch of any hold of any vessel or within an area adjacent to such hold or open hatch — |
| (a) | while flammable cargo is being shipped, discharged or transhipped into or from a hold or open hatch; or |
| (b) | when non-flammable cargo is being worked in a hold that contains flammable cargo. |
| (5) | Portable radios and cellular phones may not be used in any hold or at any open hatch of any hold of any vessel or within an area adjacent to such hold or open hatch, unless the radio or cellular phone is certified to be intrinsically safe. |