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to and from local transport, is provided;
(ii) if crews are required to report to premises for
governmental purposes, those premises should be readily accessible, and as
close to one another as practicable.
3.11.2 Recommended Practice. Measures should be taken to ensure that
all necessary information on transport and safety is readily available for
passengers who have impaired hearing or vision.
3.11.3 Recommended Practice. For elderly and disabled passengers being
set down or picked up at a terminal building, reserved points should be
located as close as possible to main entrances. These should be clearly
marked with appropriate signs. Access routes should be free of obstacles.
3.11.4 Recommended Practice. Where access to public services is
limited, every effort should be made to provide accessible and reasonably
priced public transportation services, by adapting current and planned
services, or by providing special arrangements for passengers who have
impaired mobility.
3.11.5 Recommended Practice. Provisions of suitable facilities should
be made in terminals and on ships, as appropriate, to allow safe
embarkation and disembarkation for elderly and disabled passengers.
3.12 Standard. Public authorities shall require that shipowners ensure
that ship''s personnel take all appropriate measures which will help
expedite arrival procedures for passengers and crew. These measures may
include:
(a) furnishing public authorities concerned with an advance
message giving the best estimated time of arrival, followed by information
as to any change in time, and stating the itinerary of the voyage where
this may affect inspection requirements;
(b) having ship''s documents ready for prompt review;
(c) providing for ladders or other means of boarding to be rigged
while the ship is en route to berth or anchorage;
(d) providing for prompt, orderly assembling and presentation of
persons on board, with necessary documents, for inspection, with
attention to arrangements for relieving crew members for this purpose from
essential duties in engine-rooms and elsewhere.
3.13 Recommended Practice. The practice of entering names on passenger
and crew documents should be to put the family name or names first. Where
both paternal and maternal family names are used, the paternal family name
should be placed first. Where for married women both the husband''s and
wife''s paternal family names are used, the husband''s paternal family name
should be placed first.
3.14 Standard. Public authorities shall, without unreasonable delay,
accept passengers and crew for examination as to their admission into the
State when such examination is required.
3.15 Standard. Public authorities shall not impose any penalty upon
shipowners in the event that any control document in possession of a
passenger is found by public authorities to be inadequate, or if, for
that reason, the passenger is found to be inadmissible to the State.
3.15.1 Standard. Public authorities shall invite shipowners to take
all reasonable precautions to the end that passengers hold any control
documents required by Contracting Governments.
3.15.2 Recommended Practice. For use at marine terminals and on board
ships in order to facilitate and expedite international maritime traffic,
public authorities should implement, or where the matter does not come
within their jurisdiction, recommend to the responsible parties in theircountry to implement, standardized international signs and symbols
developed or accepted by the Organization in co-operation with other
appropriate international organizations and which, to the greatest extent
practicable, are common to all modes of transport.
C. Facilitation for ships engaged on cruises and for cruise pas-sengers
3.16.1 Standard. Public authorities shall authorize granting of
pratique by radio to a cruise ship when, on the basis of information
received from it prior to its arrival, the health authority for the
intended port of arrival is of the opinion that its arrival will not
result in the introduction or spread of a quarantinable disease.
3.16.2 Standard. For cruise ships, the General Declaration, the
Passenger List and the Crew List shall be required only at the first port
of arrival and final port of departure in a country, provided that there
has been no change in the circumstances of the voyage.
3.16.3 Standard. For cruise ships, the Ship''s Stores Declaration and
the Crew''s Effects Declaration shall be required only at the first port of
arrival in a country.
3.16.4 Standard. Passports or other official documents of identity
shall at all times remain in the possession of cruise passengers.
3.16.5 Recommended Practice. If a cruise ship stays at a port for less
than 72 hours, it should not be necessary for cruise passengers to have
visas, except in special circumstances determined by the public
authorities concerned.
Note: It is the intention of this Recommended Practice that each
Contracting State may issue to such passengers, or accept from them uponarrival, some form indicating that they have permission to enter the
territory.
3.16.6 Standard. Cruise passengers shall not be unduly delayed by the
control measures exercised by public authorities.
3.16.7 Standard. In general, except for security purposes and for the
purposes of establishing identity and admissibility, cruise passengers
shall not be subject to personal examination by public authorities
responsible for immigration control.
3.16.8 Standard. If a cruise ship calls consecutively at more than one
port in the same country, passengers shall, in general, be examined by
public authorities at the first port of arrival and at the final port ofdeparture only.
3.16.9 Recommended Practice. To facilitate their prompt
disembarkation, the inward control of passengers on a cruise ship, wherepracticable, should be carried out on board before arrival at the place of
disembarkation.
3.16.10 Recommended Practice. Cruise passengers who disembark at one
port and rejoin the same ship at another port in the same country shouldenjoy the same facilities as passengers who disembark and rejoin a cruise
ship at the same port.
3.16.11 Recommended Practice. The Maritime Declaration of Health
should be the only health control necessary for cruise passengers.
3.16.12 Standard. Duty-free ship''s stores shall be allowed aboard ship
for cruise passengers during the ship''s stay in port.
3.16.13 Standard. Cruise passengers shall not be required to give a
written Customs Declaration.
3.16.14 Recommended Practice. Cruise passengers should not be subject
to any currency control.
3.16.15 Standard. Embarkation/disembarkation cards shall not be
necessary for cruise passengers.
3.16.16 Recommended Practice. Except where passenger control is based
solely on the Passenger List the public authorities should not insist onthe completion of the following details on the Passenger List:
· nationality (column 6)
· date and place of birth (column 7)
· port of embarkation (column 8)
· port of disembarkation (column 9)
D. Special measures of facilitation for passengers in transit
3.17.1 Standard. A passenger in transit who remains on board the ship
on which he arrived and departs with it shall not normally be subjected to
routine control by public authorities except for security purposes.
3.17.2 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit should be allowed
to retain his passport or other identity document.
3.17.3 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit should not be
required to complete a disembarkation/embarkation card.
3.17.4 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit who is continuing
his journey from the same port in the same ship should normally be granted
temporary permission to go ashore during the ship''s stay in port if he so
wishes.
3.17.5 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit who is continuing
his journey from the same port in the same ship should not be required to
have a visa, except in special circumstances determined by the public
authorities concerned.
3.17.6 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit who is continuing
his journey from the same port in the same ship should not normally be
required to give a written Customs Declaration.
3.17.7 Recommended Practice. A passenger in transit who leaves the
ship at one port and embarks in the same ship at a different port in thesame country should enjoy the same facilities as a passenger who arrivesand departs in the same ship at the same port.
E. Measures of facilitation for ships engaged in scientific ser-vices
3.18 Recommended Practice. A ship engaged in scientific services
carries personnel who are necessarily engaged on the ship for such
scientific purposes of the voyage. If so identified, such personnel should
be granted facilities at least as favourable as those granted to the crew
members of that ship.
F. Further measures of facilitation for foreigners belonging tothe
crews of ships engaged in international voyages-shore leave
3.19 Standard. Foreign crew members shall be allowed ashore by the
public authorities while the ship on which they arrive is in port,
provided that the formalities on arrival of the ship have been fulfilledand the public authorities have no reason to refuse permission to come
ashore for reasons of public health, public safety or public order.
3.19.1 Standard. Crew members shall not be required to hold a visa for
the purpose of shore leave.
3.19.2 Recommended Practice. Crew members before going on or returning
from shore leave should not normally be subjected to personal checks.
3.19.3 Standard. Crew members shall not be required to have a special
permit, e.g. a shore leave pass, for the purpose of shore leave.
3.19.4 Recommended Practice. If crew members are required to carry
documents of identity with them when they are on shore leave, these
documents should be limited to those mentioned in Standard 3.10.
Section 4-Public health and quarantine including
sanitary measuresfor animals and plants
4.1 Standard. Public authorities of a State not Party to the
International Health Regulations shall endeavour to apply the relevant
provisions for these Regulations to international shipping.
4.2 Recommended Practice. Contracting Governments having certain
interests in common owing to their health, geographical, socialor
economic conditions should conclude special arrangements pursuant to
article 98 of the International Health Regulations when such arrangements
will facilitate the application of those Regulations.
4.3 Recommended Practice. Where Sanitary Certificates or similar
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