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Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) (Medical Examination) Regulation (L.N. 605 of 1995) (Cap. 478O).

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China
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Seafarers - Occupational safety and health and welfare
1995-12-20
Non-Metropolitan Territories
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

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Prohibits employment of seafarers who do not possess a valid medical fitness certificate within 2 years of the Regulation coming into operation. Seafarers aggrieved by the refusal of a medical practitioner to issue them a certificate may apply to the Superintendent to have their cases reviewed (s. 11). Provision is made for a Hong Kong ship to be detained if, due to the failure of any seafarer to produce a valid medical fitness certificate, it cannot sail without serious risk to the safety or health of those on board (s. 13). Gives effect in part to the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention 1976 (ILO convention No. 147).
C147 - Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976

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    Serial title
    Hong Kong Government Gazette, Legal Supplement No. 2
    Date
    1995-12-29
    Volume
    Vol. CXXXVII
    Number
    No. 52
    Page range
    pp. B3054-B3091