1.1.1 The Code applies to ships
regardless of size, including those of less than 500 gross tonnage,
engaged in the carriage of bulk cargoes of dangerous chemicals or
noxious liquid substances (NLS), other than petroleum or similar flammable
products as follows:
1.1.2 Products that have been
reviewed and determined not to present safety and pollution hazards
to such an extent as to warrant the application of the Code are found
in chapter 18.
1.1.3 Liquids covered by the
Code are those having a vapour pressure not exceeding 0.28 MPa absolute
at a temperature of 37.8°C.
1.1.4 For the purpose of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, the Code applies to ships
which are engaged in the carriage of products included in chapter 17 on the basis of their safety characteristics
and identified as such by an entry of S or S/P in column d.
1.1.5 For the purposes of MARPOL 73/78, the Code applies only to NLS tankers,
as defined in regulation 1.16.2 of Annex II thereof, which are engaged
in the carriage of Noxious Liquid Substances identified as such by
an entry of X, Y or Z in column c of chapter
17.
1.1.6 For a product proposed
for carriage in bulk, but not listed in chapters 17 or 18, the Administration and port Administrations
involved in such carriage shall prescribe the preliminary suitable
conditions for the carriage, having regard to the criteria for hazard
evaluation of bulk chemicals. For the evaluation of the pollution
hazard of such a product and assignment of its pollution category,
the procedure specified in regulation
6.3 of Annex II of MARPOL 73/78 must be followed. The Organization
shall be notified of the conditions for consideration for inclusion
of the product in the Code.
1.1.7 Unless expressly provided
otherwise, the Code applies to ships, the keels of which are laid
or which are at the stage where:
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.1 construction identifiable with the ship begins;
and
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.2 assembly has commenced comprising at least 50
tonnes or 1% of the estimated mass of all structural material, whichever is
less;
on or after 1 July 1986.
1.1.8 A ship, irrespective
of the date of construction, which is converted to a chemical tanker
on or after 1 July 1986 shall be treated as a chemical tanker constructed
on the date on which such conversion commences. This conversion provision
does not apply to the modification of a ship referred to in regulation 1.14 of Annex II of
MARPOL 73/78.
1.1.9 Where reference is made
in the Code to a paragraph, all the provisions of the subparagraphs
of that designation shall apply.