This legislation has been repealed.
The Master of every
oil vessel carrying inflammable liquid in bulk and intending to berth at a
wharf or jetty shall, immediately on the vessel being so berthed, have a steel
wire hawser sufficiently strong to enable the vessel to be hauled away from
the wharf or jetty placed over the fore and aft ends of such oil vessel and
made securely fast on board, and such hawsers shall remain so long as any
inflammable liquid remains on board and until the oil vessel has been properly
cleansed and ventilated or until the vessel has been removed from the wharf or
jetty whichever of the said events shall sooner happen.