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SCMP Reporter

All Hong Kong seafarers must be re-registered under the new Merchant Shipping (Seafarers) Ordinance, a Marine Department spokesman says.

  The shipping ordinance, replacing the Merchant Shipping (Recruiting of Seamen) Ordinance, will come into operation on September 2.

  Under the new ordinance, all Hong Kong seamen registered under the Merchant Shipping (Recruiting of Seamen) Ordinance and those unregistered seafarers now being employed on coastal-going ships must be re-registered if they intend to continue seafaring.

   They should apply to the superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Marine Department for their registration until September 1, 1997.

  If they are employed on foreign-going ships, they should apply within one month after being discharged from a ship returning to Hong Kong.



Seafarers must re-register