New South Wales Repealed Regulations New South Wales Repealed RegulationsThis legislation has been repealed.
The master of a vessel conveying flammable liquid or flammable gas in bulk and that berths at a wharf must ensure that:
(a) immediately after the vessel is berthed, steel wire hawsers (sufficiently strong to enable the vessel to be hauled away from the wharf) are placed over its fore and aft ends, secured inboard and their unsecured ends lowered to a height of not more than one metre above the surface of the water, and
(b) the hawsers remain in place while the vessel is alongside the wharf and are tended and adjusted from time to time as may be required to meet changes in the draught of the vessel so that their unsecured ends remain at a height of not more than one metre above the surface of the water.
Penalty: Contravention of this clause is an offence and is punishable in accordance with clause 340.