Reports in Respect of Ships Intending to Enter Port
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Reports in Respect of Ships Intending to Enter Port

  7.4 When, in the exercise of control and compliance measures, a duly authorized officer has clear grounds that a ship that intends to enter port is non-compliant with chapters XI-2 or part A of the ISPS Code after receiving the information in paragraph 3.1 of this Guidance, the duly authorized officer shall attempt to establish communication with and between the ship and the Administration to rectify the identified non-compliant items (regulation XI-2/9.2.4).

  7.5 When non-compliance is not rectified through this communication, shall notify the ship of the intentions to take proportionate steps to rectify those items. After receiving this information, the master may withdraw his/her intention to enter the port (regulation XI-2/9.2.5).

  7.6 When, in the exercise of control and compliance measures, a duly authorized officer takes any of the proportionate steps in this Guidance, to rectify non-compliance on a ship intending to enter port, including denial of entry, the Contracting Government shall forthwith inform in writing the Administration specifying which control measures have been imposed or steps taken and reasons thereof. The Contracting Government shall provide copies of a such report to the recognized security organization, which issued the ship's ISSC (or the Interim ISSC), and the Organization (regulation XI-2/9.3.1).

Parent topic: Chapter 7 - Reporting
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