Section 208

The Minister may make regulations for preventing collisions at sea (to be known as the collision regulations), and may thereby regulate the lights to be carried and exhibited, the fog signals to be carried and used, and the steering and sailing rules to be observed by all Singapore ships wherever they may be.

The power of the Minister under subsection (1) shall include power to make regulations for the prevention of collisions at sea —

Regulations made under subsection (1) shall be observed by all vessels and seaplanes of foreign registry within the territorial waters of Singapore, and in any case before a court of Singapore concerning an infringement of those regulations arising within the territorial waters of Singapore, foreign vessels and seaplanes shall be treated as if they were vessels and seaplanes registered in Singapore.[225