This Law is enacted in order to provide for matters concerning planning, construction, management, operation, security, and pollution prevention of commercial ports. The Commercial Port mentioned in the Law refers to a port where merchant ships enter in and depart from. The Specialized Zones refer to regions, within Commercial Port Area, which have been delimited for the use of fishery, manufacturing industries, and other particular purposes. The ship owner or her agents shall fill in a prior declaration form for ship’s entrance or departure for international commercial ports, 24 hours before the ship’s arrival, or 12 hours before the ship’s departure, and file the form with the commercial port authority for inspection and arranging berthing (art.19) . If wastes, hazardous substances, sewage have been dumped into commercial port area through ditches, sewer, or other pipeline facilities, the users or operators shall set up appliance or pollution prevention facilities in the vents, and clean up all the garbage gathered there from (art.14) . A ship, which carries the dangerous cargoes of explosive, compressive, inflammable, oxidizable, poisonous, epidemic, radioactive and corrosive substances, shall apply to the commercial port authority for a berthing site, before entering the port (art.25) .
مقاطعة تايوان الصينية · 1980-05-02