S.L. 499.12 Art. 9Compliance with Relevant Instruments.

(1) Except as may be otherwise determined and instructed by the Authority from time to time, the construction, operations, equipment, procedures, personnel and practices of all ships, including non-dangerous cargo ships engaged in the reception of bunkers, bunker barges, marine terminals and marine facilities, the activities of cargo interests and the use of road tankers within any port area for the purposes of supplying bunkers to ships shall be in full compliance and carried out in strict accordance with all the requirements laid down in the Relevant Instruments.

(2) No dangerous or polluting goods shall be offered for carriage or taken on board any vessel, irrespective of its size, in a port of Malta unless a declaration has been delivered to the master or owner containing the following information:

(a) the correct technical names of the dangerous or polluting goods, the United Nations (UN) numbers where they exist, the IMO hazard classes in accordance with the IMDG, IBC and IGC Codes and, where appropriate, the class of the ship needed for INF cargoes as defined in Regulation VII/14.2, the quantities of such goods and, if they are being carried in cargo transport units other than tanks, the identification number thereof;

(b) for the substances referred to in Annex 1 to the MARPOL Convention, the safety data sheet detailing the physico-chemical characteristics of the products, including, where applicable, their viscosity expressed in cSt at 50ºC and their density at 15ºC and the other data contained in the safety data sheet in accordance with IMO Resolution MSC.286(86);

(c) the address from which detailed information on the cargo may be obtained; and

(d) the emergency numbers of the shipper or any other person or body in possession of information on the physico-chemical characteristics of the products and on the action to be taken in an emergency.

(3) Vessels coming from a port outside the Community and calling in a port of Malta which have dangerous or polluting goods on board shall be in possession of a declaration, as provided for by the shipper, containing all the information required by sub-regulation (2).

(4) It shall be the duty and responsibility of the shipper to deliver to the master or operator such declaration required by this regulation and to ensure that the shipment offered for carriage is indeed the one stated in the declaration.