The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1997

Container or Vehicle Packing Certificates

12.—(1) Where packaged goods are to be packed or shipped in or on a cargo transport unit, the person responsible for packing such goods therein shall:

(a) ensure that the stowage, segregation and securing of the goods is adequate and in accordance with the IMDG Code;

(b) provide the operator or master or shipper or forwarder, with a signed packing certificate in accordance with the requirements of the IMDG Code, indicating the cargo transport unit, identification number or numbers and identifying the place and date of the operation, the name of the person responsible for the packing and his status, and company or organisation.

(2) This regulation does not apply in relation to goods packaged within a portable tank, road tank vehicle, rail tank wagon or tank container.

(3) (a) If the person responsible for packing such goods contravenes paragraph (1) he shall be guilty of an offence.

(b) If the shipper or forwarder fails to provide the operator or master of the ship with the signed packing certificate he shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) An operator or the master shall not accept on any ship any cargo transport unit with such goods in it without a signed packing certificate. If an operator or the master contravenes with this paragraph he shall be guilty of an offence.