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Merchant Shipping (Safe Containers Convention) Act, 2011 (Act No. 10 of 2011)

10. Regulations

 

1) The Minister may make regulations-
a) regarding the detention and transportation of containers that do not carry a valid Safety Approval Plate as required by the Convention;
b) regarding the detention and transportation of containers in respect of which there is significant evidence that the condition of the container creates an obvious risk to safety;
c) regarding the maintenance and repair of containers;
d) pertaining to the circumstances under which and the manner in which the Authority may dispose of detained containers that have not been reclaimed;
e) requiring that the Safety Approval Plate affixed to any or all containers approved in terms of this Act be in one or more of the official languages of the Republic;
f) prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; and
g) generally with regard to any other incidental administrative or procedural matter necessary to prescribe for the proper implementation of this Act.

 

2)
a) The Minister may incorporate all or part of any health and safety standard, without re-stating the text thereof, in a regulation by referring to the number, title and year of issue of that health and safety standard or to any other particular by which that health and safety standard is sufficiently identified.
b) Whenever a health and safety standard referred to in paragraph (a) is subsequently amended or substituted, the amended health and safety standard is, in the absence of a contrary intention, deemed to have been incorporated in terms of the regulation contemplated in paragraph (a).
c) A copy of a full text of a health and safety standard incorporated in terms of paragraph (a) and any amendment or substitution thereof, must be kept at a place in the Republic that the Authority directs and must be available for public inspection.
d) Section 28 of the Standards Act, 2008 (Act No. 8 of 2008), does not apply to any incorporation of a health and safety standard or to any amendment or substitution of a health and safety standard under this section.

 

 


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