Section 41

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 the keeping or placing of private moorings or buoys;

regulating the use of lights and the signals to be used in the port and the steps to be taken for avoiding collision by vessels navigating in the port;

the information to be supplied by the masters, owners, agents and other persons in respect of vessels arriving and departing and the time and manner in which such information must be supplied;

regulating, directing and controlling the use of vessels within the territorial waters of Singapore and all activities carried on in the waters of the port in respect of vessels, including but not limited to prescribing the conditions for towage and sale and supply of water and fuel to vessels and prohibiting such towage, sale and supply except through the Authority or by agreement with the Authority, and providing for the licensing thereof;

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

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 and controlling the use and manning of harbour craft and providing for the licensing of harbour craft;

supervising, regulating and controlling all activities carried on in the waters of the port and providing for the licensing of the activities;

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

regulating the provision and maintenance of beacons, lighthouses, buoys and other aids to navigation not owned or erected by the Authority and providing for the licensing of those aids to navigation;

prescribing the standards of competence to be attained 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;

providing for and in respect of the construction and machinery, equipment, fittings, installations, appliances and apparatus of harbour craft, and the tests to be carried out and the maintenance in respect thereof, including the provision, maintenance and stowage of lifesaving and firefighting appliances and apparatus and providing for and in respect of the survey of harbour craft, the issue, suspension, cancellation or extension and period of validity of certificates or exemption certificates, and the types and forms of the certificates;

regulating the navigation and place of anchoring or mooring of vessels carrying dangerous cargoes;

regulating the mode of utilising, stowing and keeping dangerous cargoes on board vessels and the conveyance within the port of any kind of dangerous cargoes with any other kind of goods, articles or substances;

regulating, declaring and defining the wharves and docks and on and from which goods are to be landed from and shipped in vessels;

keeping free passages of such width as is deemed necessary in 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;

the information to be supplied by the masters, owners or agents and other persons in respect of goods loaded or discharged at the wharves in the port, and the time and manner in which such information must be supplied;

prohibiting the embarkation and disembarkation of persons except at places authorised by the Authority for such purpose;

prohibiting the loading and discharging of goods other than, in the case of dutiable goods, at wharves, docks and places authorised in the Customs Act 1960 or regulations made under that Act and, in the case of non‑dutiable goods, at wharves, docks and places named in the Regulation of Imports and Exports Act 1995 or any regulations made under that Act and at any other wharves, docks and places approved by the Authority;

prohibiting the loading, handling or discharging of dangerous cargoes at wharves or docks where the loading, handling or discharging appears specially dangerous to the public.