Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules, 1992.

These Rules re-enact and extend the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules, 1983 giving effect to the additional requirements applying to: (i) dangerous goods carried in solid form in bulk; (ii) explosives for distress signals, rockets and fireworks; (iii) reporting of incidents involving the loss or likely loss of dangerous goods. Dangerous goods means goods classified in the 1990 consolidated edition of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code or any other IMO publication specified below as dangerous for carriage by sea, and any other substance or goods the properties of which might be dangerous if that substance or those goods were carried by sea The Rules give effect to Part A of Chapter VII of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as set out in: (a) the Second (1983) Amendments to that Convention adopted by the International Maritime Organization on 17 June, 1983: (b) Amendments to that Convention adopted by the International Maritime Convention 11 April, 1989; and (c) Amendments to that Convention adopted by the International Maritime Organization on 23 May, 1991. The twelve rules are divided into 5 Parts: General; Packaged Goods; Stowage and Carriage; Carriage in Bulk; Documentation of Dangerous Goods Loaded in Bulk.