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authority concerned.
2.16 Standard. Public authorities of the country of any intended port
of arrival, discharge, or transit shall not require any document relating
to the ship, its cargo, stores, passengers or crew, as mentioned in thissection, to be legalized, verified, authenticated, or previously dealt
with by any of their representatives abroad. This shall not be deemed topreclude a requirement for the presentation of a passport or other
identity document of a passenger or crew member for visa or similar
purposes.
H. Special measures of facilitation for ships calling at ports
inorder to put ashore sick or injured crew members, passengers
or other per-sons for emergency medical treatment
2.17 Standard. Public authorities shall seek the co-operation of
shipowners to ensure that, when ships intend to call at ports for the
sole purpose of putting ashore sick or injured crew members, passengers or
other persons for emergency medical treatment, the master shall give thepublic authorities as much notice as possible of that intention, with the
fullest possible details of the sickness or injury and of the identity and
status of the persons.
2.18 Standard. Public authorities shall by radio whenever possible,
but in any case by the fastest channels available, inform the master,
before the arrival of the ship, of the documentation and the procedures
necessary to put the sick or injured persons ashore expeditiously and toclear the ship without delay.
2.19 Standard. With regard to ships calling at ports for this purpose
and intending to leave again immediately, public authorities shall give
priority in berthing if the state of the sick person or the sea conditions
do not allow a safe disembarkation in the roads or harbour approaches.
2.20 Standard. With regard to ships calling at ports for this purpose
and intending to leave again immediately, public authorities shall not
normally require the documents mentioned in Standard 2.1 with the
exception of the Maritime Declaration of Health and, if it is
indispensable, the General Declaration.
2.21 Standard. Where public authorities require the General
Declaration, this document shall not contain more information than that
mentioned in Recommended Practice 2.2.2 and, wherever possible, shall
contain less.
2.22 Standard. Where the public authorities apply control measures
related to the arrival of a ship prior to sick or injured persons being
put ashore, emergency medical treatment and measures for the protection of
public health shall take precedence over these control measures.
2.23 Standard. Where guarantees or undertakings are required in
respect of costs of treatment or eventual removal or repatriation of thepersons concerned, emergency medical treatment shall not be withheld or
delayed while these guarantees or undertakings are being obtained.
2.24 Standard. Emergency medical treatment and measures for the
protection of public health shall take precedence over any control
measures which public authorities may apply to sick or injured persons
being put ashore.
Section 3-Arrival and departure of persons
This section contains the provisions concerning the formalities
required by public authorities from crew and passengers on the arrival or
departure of a ship.
A. Arrival and departure requirements and procedures
3.1 Standard. A valid passport shall be the basic document providing
public authorities with information relating to the individual passengeron arrival or departure of a ship.
3.1.1 Recommended Practice. Contracting Governments should as far as
possible agree, by bilateral or multilateral agreements, to accept
official documents of identity in lieu of passports.
3.2 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should make arrangements
whereby passports, or official documents of identity accepted in their
place, from ship''s passengers need be inspected by the immigration
authorities only once at the time of arrival and once at the time of
departure. In addition these passports or official documents of identitymay be required to be produced for the purpose of verification or
identification in connection with customs and other formalities on arrival
and departure.
3.3 Recommended Practice. After individual presentation of passports
or official documents of identity accepted in their place, public
authorities should hand back such documents immediately after examination
rather than withholding them for the purpose of obtaining additional
control, unless there is some obstacle to the admission of a passenger to
the territory.
3.4 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should not require from
embarking or disembarking passengers, or from shipowners on their behalf,
any information in writing supplementary to or repeating that already
presented in their passports or official documents of identity, other
than as necessary to complete any documents provided for in this Annex.
3.5 Recommended Practice. Public authorities which require written
supplementary information other than as necessary to complete any
documents provided for in this Annex, from embarking or disembarking
passengers, should limit requirements for further identification of
passengers to the items set forth in Recommended Practice 3.6
(embarkation/disembarkation card). Public authorities should accept the
embarkation/disembarkation card when completed by the passenger and should
not require that it be completed or checked by the shipowner. Legible
handwritten script should be accepted on the card, except where the formspecifies block lettering. One copy only of the embarkation/disembarkation
card, which may include one or more simultaneously prepared carbon copies,
should be required from each passenger.
3.6 Recommended Practice. In the embarkation/disembarkation card
public authorities should not require more than the following information:
· family name
· given names
· nationality
· number of passport or other official identity document
· date of birth
· place of birth
· occupation
· port of embarkation/disembarkation
· sex
· destination address
· signature
3.7 Standard. In cases where evidence of protection against cholera,
yellow fever or smallpox is required from persons on board a ship, public
authorities shall accept the International Certificate of Vaccination orRe-Vaccination in the forms provided for in the International Health
Regulations.
3.8 Recommended Practice. Medical examination of persons on board or
of persons disembarking from ships should normally be limited to those
persons arriving from an area infected with one of the quarantinable
diseases within the incubation period of the disease concerned (as stated
in the International Health Regulations). Additional medical examinationmay, however, be required in accordance with the International Health
Regulations.
3.9 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should normally perform
customs inspections of inbound passengers'' accompanied baggage on a
sampling or selective basis. Written declarations in respect of
passengers'' accompanied baggage should be dispensed with as far as
possible.
3.9.1 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should, wherever
possible, waive inspections of accompanied baggage of departing
passengers, with due regard to the possible need to impose appropriate
security measures.
3.9.2 Recommended Practice. Where inspection of accompanied baggage of
departing passengers cannot be waived completely, such inspection shouldnormally be performed on a sampling or selective basis.
3.10 Standard. A valid seafarer''s identity document or a passport
shall be the basic document providing public authorities with information
relating to the individual member of the crew on arrival or departure of a
ship.
3.10.1 Standard. In the seafarer''s identity document, public
authorities shall not require more than the following information:
· family name
· given names
· date and place of birth
· nationality
· physical characteristics
· photograph (authenticated)
· signature
· date of expiry (if any)
· issuing public authority.
3.10.2 Standard. When it is necessary for a seafarer to enter or leave
a country as a passenger by any means of transportation for the purpose of
(a) joining his ship or transferring to another ship,
(b) passing in transit to join his ship in another country, or for
repatriation, or for any other purpose approved by the authorities of the
country concerned,
public authorities shall accept from that seafarer in place of a
passport the valid seafarer''s identity document, when this document
guarantees the readmission of the bearer to the country which issued thedocument.
3.10.3 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should not normally
require presentation of individual identity documents or of information
supplementing the seafarer''s identity document in respect of members of
the crew other than that given in the Crew List.
B. Measures to facilitate clearance of cargo, passengers, crewand baggage
3.11 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should, with the
co-operation of shipowners and port authorities, take appropriate measures
to the end that satisfactory port traffic flow arrangements may be
provided so that passengers, crew and baggage can be cleared rapidly,
should provide adequate personnel, and should ensure that adequate
installations are provided, particular attention being paid to baggage
loading, unloading and conveyance arrangements (including the use of
mechanized systems) and to points where passenger delays are frequently
found to occur. Arrangements should be made, when necessary, for passageunder shelter between the ship and the point where the passenger and crew
check is to be made. Such arrangements and installations should be
flexible and capable of expansion to meet increased security measures
during higher threat situations.
3.11.1 Recommended Practice. Public authorities should:
(a) in co-operation with shipowners and port authorities introduce
suitable arrangements, such as:
(i) an individual and continuous method of processing
passengers and baggage;
(ii) a system which would permit passengers readily to
identify and obtain their checked baggage as soon as it is placed in an
area where it may be claimed;
(iii) ensuring that facilities and services are available to
meet the needs of elderly and disabled passengers;
(b) ensure that port authorities take all necessary measures so
that:
(i) easy and speedy access for passengers and their baggage,
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