Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) From the time when
tanks of an oil vessel are opened for the purpose of discharging or loading
inflammable liquid in bulk, and until such time as the operations of
discharging or loading have been completed and the tanks have been thoroughly
ventilated, no person shall use or permit or suffer to be used on the vessel,
any fire, other than approved ship’s boilers, or light other than a
safety lamp approved by the Harbour Master, either on board or within
30 metres of the oil vessel, without the authority of the Harbour Master.
(2) Fires, lights, or
electric apparatus, other than electric filament lamps or self contained
lamps, heaters, cookers, or other types of safe apparatus so designed,
constructed and maintained as to be incapable of igniting inflammable vapour,
shall not be used on or near the wharf at which inflammable liquid is being
discharged or loaded, or upon which inflammable liquid is lying.
[Regulation 38 amended in Gazette
27 Jun 2003 p. 2523.]