Singapore legislation
Regulation 17
Regulation 17
Carrying out of hot work, high speed drilling or other similar operations or ship-breaking or dismantling operations
Subregulation 1
The owner of a shipyard or his employee or agent who has control over any works to be carried out in a shipyard shall ensure that the following works shall not be carried out in the shipyard or in any compartment or pipeline of a vessel which contains, or had contained, petroleum unless a certificate is issued in respect of the work to be carried out:
hot work or high speed drilling; and
other fire, spark or heat producing operation.
Subregulation 2
The owner, agent or master of a vessel shall ensure that no hot work, high speed drilling or any other fire, spark or heat producing operation is carried out on or in any vessel at any petroleum anchorage or dangerous goods anchorage.
Subregulation 3
The owner, agent or master of a vessel that is within the port shall ensure that no hot work, high speed drilling or any other fire, spark or heat producing operation is carried out —
on or in the vessel if the vessel carried petroleum as the whole or part of her last cargo; or
on or in any compartment or pipeline of the vessel that contained petroleum,unless a certificate is issued in respect of the work to be carried out.
Subregulation 4
The owner, agent or master of a vessel shall ensure that no ship-breaking or dismantling operation is carried out on the vessel unless a certificate is issued in respect of the work to be carried out.
Subregulation 5
This regulation shall not apply to the carrying out of any hot work for which a hot-work permit has been issued under regulation 40 of the Factories (Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing) Regulations (Cap. 104, Rg 11).