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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

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Merchant Shipping (Maritime Security) Regulations, 2004

Part 4 : Ship Security Plans and ISSC's etc

Division 6 - Ship security records

84. Ship security records

 

(1) A South African regulated ship must keep a record of the following information in relation to the ship:
(a) the approved ship security plan for the ship;
(b) whether the ship possesses a valid ISSC;
(c) the period of validity, and the name of the issuing authority, of the ISSCs possessed by the ship;
(d) the security level at which the ship is operating;
(e) the security levels at which the ship operated at ports, and specific periods during which the ship operated at those levels, while conducting ship/port interfaces;
(f) any special or additional security measures that were implemented by the ship in any port where it conducted ship/port interface;
(g) whether appropriate ship security procedures were maintained during any ship to ship activity;
(h) if ship security procedures mentioned in paragraph (g) were maintained, the procedures and the specific periods during which those procedures were maintained.

 

(2) Ship security records must be kept on board the ship an must be made available for inspection at the request of the government of a port state, in the circumstances described in regulation XI-2/9 of the Safety Convention, if the port state is a Convention State.

 

(3) Ship security records must be kept for a period of 7 years beginning on—
(a) in the case of a document, the date of the document or, if the document consists of a series of entries, the date when the latest entry is made on the document; or
(b) in the case of information, the date when the information was obtained or, if the information is part of a document that consists of a series of entries, the date when the latest entry is made on the document.