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Regulation On The Indication Of Water Transport Routes

Original Language Title: Asetus vesikulkuväylien merkitsemisestä

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Regulation on the labelling of watercraft

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The presentation of the Minister for Trade and Industry is as follows:

ARTICLE 1

This Regulation shall apply to the marking of navigable lanes at sea or other river basins as well as other similar navigation and safeguarding of water transport.

Where appropriate, the maritime safety equipment referred to in Article 2 shall be used to control and safeguard waterborne transport. (8.3.1991/513)

Paragraph 3 has been repealed by A 8.3.1991/513 .

ARTICLE 2

Shipping restraints are solid or floaty.

Fixed security devices are electronic tracking stations and equipment, radar signals, lighthouses, buses and sectors, linkages, linkages, odours and other distinguishing marks, water-traffic signs, light signalling and other comparable fixed features Equipment. (8.3.1991/513)

Floating security devices are buoys, capillaries and capes.

ARTICLE 3

The Maritime Administration shall adopt the necessary provisions or instructions:

(1) means of marking and illuminating the lanes;

(2) the designation, structure, meaning, colour and light of other equipment used for the signalling of maritime safety equipment and passageways; (8.3.1991/513)

(3) the construction, establishment, modification and withdrawal of maritime safety equipment, and when they are operational; and

(4) for the labelling of cables, cables and other similar constructions and equipment in water or transports.

§ 4

Unless otherwise provided for separately, the safety equipment necessary for the water transport of public access to the waterways shall be carried out on behalf of the State.

§ 5

Non-nautical establishment shall not build or maintain a maritime safety device or maintain it without authorisation. The authorisation shall be submitted by the Maritime Government to consider the appropriateness of the restraint and to lay down the conditions of construction, installation and maintenance.

The holder of an authorisation referred to in paragraph 1 shall not remove the maritime safety device established or constructed on the basis of an authorisation without the consent of the maritime government, unless the maritime government is authorised or otherwise instructed.

If the authorisation safety device referred to in paragraph 1 is incomplete or misleading, the maritime authority shall be instructed by the competent authority within a time limit to repair the device. In the event of failure to repair the device, the maritime authorities shall have the power to make a correction at the expense of the maintenance professional.

ARTICLE 6

There shall be no advertising or signalling or other lighting device that resembles a maritime safety device or otherwise could pose a risk to shipping traffic in the vicinity of the conveyance or other water transport area.

§ 7

In the event of changes in safety devices important to the sea, the Maritime Administration shall indicate in its publication 'Information to the seafarers'. In urgent cases, the maritime government may also notify changes via radio and coastal radio stations.

§ 8 (8.3.1991/513)

If anyone notices that a maritime safety device does not act as declared or that any device has disappeared, damaged, moved from its place or is, for any other reason, mistaken, he must inform the nearest The credit station, the maritime district, the maritime government or any other maritime authority.

§ 9

If a vessel, part or article of a vessel, a ship or goods in a waterway transport area, is dangerous or harmful to shipping or boating, is the owner or the owner of the vessel in which the ship or the vessel was controlled as soon as possible A sunken object. Where appropriate, the interested party shall place the appropriate signal on the site as a temporary warning sign for seafarers and shall notify the nearest credit station, navigator, maritime government or other The maritime authority. (8.3.1991/513)

The obligation to compensate for the damage caused by the breach of the measure referred to in paragraph 1 shall be in force, in accordance with (412/74) Is provided for. The maritime authorities are entitled, at the expense of the defaulter, to take the necessary measures to avert the danger or to remove the barrier.

ARTICLE 10

Any breach of the provisions of this Regulation or of any provisions adopted pursuant to it shall be condemned, unless the act has been subject to a heavier penalty elsewhere in the law, On the infringement of a watercraft exceeding Fine.

Anyone who secures a vessel, a boat, gear or any other floating restraint must be condemned, even if it has not caused any movement or damage to the device, Endangering the functioning of the maritime safety device Fine.

ARTICLE 11

Costs arising from the measures taken by the maritime authorities in accordance with Article 5 (3) and Article 9 (2) of the Staff Regulations shall be charged in the order in which the levying of taxes and charges is levied. By means of enforcement.

ARTICLE 12

Compliance with this Regulation and the provisions adopted under this Regulation shall be subject to control by the shipping, police, border guards, military and customs authorities.

ARTICLE 13 (8.3.1991/513)

More detailed provisions on the application of this Regulation shall be adopted by the Ministry of Transport as appropriate.

ARTICLE 14

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1980.

This Regulation repeals the Regulation of 25 February 1961 on maritime security (125/1996) With its subsequent modifications. Articles 4 and 5 of the Maritime Safety Regulations, Article 4, as amended by the Regulations of 30 December 1963 and 16 March 1979 (658/63 and 312/79), are in force in the sea areas until the end of 1980 and Inland waters until the end of 1981.

Entry into force and application of amending acts:

19.12.1980/992:
8.3.1991/513:

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1991.