Section 66

regulating traffic and preventing and removing obstruction or impediment to navigation within the limits of the port and the approaches to the port;

the conduct of inquiries into any case where damage has been caused to or by a vessel;

regulating, declaring and defining the wharves, docks and places vested in the Authority or under its control, on and from which goods shall be landed from and shipped in vessels;

regulating the manner in which and the conditions under which the loading and discharging of vessels shall be carried out, and for varying the position of vessels loading or discharging;

keeping free passages of such width as is deemed necessary within the port and along or near to the wharves, docks, moorings and other similar works in or adjoining the same and for marking out the spaces so to be kept free;

regulating the anchoring, fastening, mooring and unmooring and warping of all vessels and the use of warps, mooring buoys, chain and other moorings and the granting of permission, on such conditions as the Authority may think fit, for the keeping or placing of private moorings or buoys;

regulating traffic, preventing obstruction and keeping order on wharves and docks and for ensuring the safety of the same and any cargo thereon;

regulating the use of fires and lights and the signals to be used and measures to be taken in case of fires in the port;

enforcing and regulating the use of navigation lights, signals and signal lights by vessels and the steps to be taken for avoiding collision by vessels navigating in the waters of the port;

the information to be supplied by the masters, owners, agents and other persons in respect of vessels arriving and departing and of goods loaded or discharged at the wharves and premises of the Authority, and the time and manner in which such information shall be supplied;

regulating, directing and controlling the use of vessels within the territorial waters of Singapore;

the prohibition of chipping, scaling or noisy repairs on vessels or the breaking up of vessels except at such places and at such times as may be prescribed;

permitting, regulating and controlling the landing of personnel belonging to an armed service of any foreign country and the movement of such personnel within the port;

the safe and convenient use of the wharves, docks and premises vested in the Authority or under its control and of any ferry service maintained by the Authority;

regulating the reception, storage and removal of goods within and from the premises of the Authority, and for declaring the procedure to be followed for taking charge of goods which have been damaged before landing or are alleged to have been so damaged;

keeping clean the basins, works and premises of the Authority and the waters of the port and the approaches to the port and preventing oil, filth, rubbish or any other thing from being thrown or entering therein or thereon;

regulating the towage of or other assistance to vessels and the terms and conditions of such towage or assistance and prohibiting such towage or assistance except through the Authority or by agreement with the Authority;

prescribing the terms and conditions for the sale and supply of water in the port and prohibiting such sale and supply except through the Authority or by agreement with the Authority;

regulating and controlling the use of harbour craft and providing for the licensing thereof;

excluding or limiting the liability of the Authority in respect of anything done pursuant to any regulations made under this Act;

supervising, regulating and controlling all activities carried on within the port and within the premises under the ownership, management or control of the Authority and providing for the licensing thereof;

regulating the provision and maintenance of adequate and efficient mooring buoys, gangways, landing stages, mooring and berthing facilities and providing for the licensing thereof;

regulating the provision and maintenance of beacons, light-houses, buoys and other aids to navigation not owned or erected by the Authority and providing for the licensing thereof;

prohibiting the loading and discharging of cargo other than at piers and places authorised for loading and discharging of cargo under the Customs Act [Cap. 70] or the Control of Imports and Exports Act [Cap. 56] or any regulations made thereunder;

prescribing manning requirements for harbour craft; and

prescribing the standards of competence to be attained (subject to any exemptions allowed by or under the regulations) by officers and crew of harbour craft in order to be qualified for the purposes of manning harbour craft and providing for, for such purposes, the conduct of any examinations, the conditions for admission to them and the issue, form and recording of licences or certificates and other documents.

classifying goods as dangerous goods;

regulating the navigation and place of berthing, anchoring or mooring of vessels carrying dangerous goods;

regulating the mode of stowing and keeping dangerous goods on board such a vessel;

regulating and controlling the lighterage, handling, landing, loading and discharging of dangerous goods;

prohibiting or subjecting to conditions and restrictions the conveyance of any kind of dangerous goods with any other kind of goods, articles or substances;

prohibiting the loading, handling or discharging of dangerous goods at places within the jurisdiction of the Authority in cases where such loading, handling or discharging appears specially dangerous to the public;

fixing the places and times at which dangerous goods are to be loaded or discharged and the quantity to be loaded or discharged at any one time;

regulating the mode of, and the precautions to be observed in, conveying or keeping dangerous goods and in the loading, handling or discharging of them;

fixing the times at which lights or fires are to be allowed or not allowed on board vessels carrying dangerous goods;

generally for protecting, whether by means similar to those abovementioned or not, persons and property from danger.