Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)RegulationsMerchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Regulations, 1997Part 2 : Carriage of Packaged Dangerous Goods12. Packaging of goods, stowage, loading and carriage of a container |
(1)
| (a) | The packaging, marking, labelling, stowage, and handling of dangerous goods or marine pollutants and the carriage of a cargo transport unit carrying dangerous goods or marine pollutants must comply with the IMO Code of Practice for Packaging Cargo Transport Units, IMDG Code and the Merchant Shipping (Safe Containers Convention) Act, 2011 (Act No. 10 of 2011). |
| (b) | The packaging in paragraph (a) must, if required by the IMDG Code, be performance tested, as specified in the Code, certified and marked in accordance with Part 6 of the IMDG Code by an approved testing authority. |
| (2) | Packaged dangerous goods or marine pollutants may not be taken on board a vessel for carriage in that vessel if the shipowner or master knows or ought to know that the goods or marine pollutants are not packaged in such a manner as to withstand the ordinary risk of carriage by sea. |
| (3) | If a shipowner, master, consignor, consignee or the representative of the shipowner, master, consignor, consignee fails to comply with subregulation (1), the shipowner, master or consignor, consignee or their representative is guilty of an offence. |
[Regulation 12 substituted by section 15 of the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Amendment Regulations, 2026, Notice No. 3979, GG54853, dated 19 June 2026]