Domestic Ferries Security Regulations (SOR/2009-321)

Marginal note:Objective

• 95. (1) Security procedures shall be established for all MARSEC levels in the security plan in respect of a domestic ferry and the security plan in respect of a domestic ferry facility, as appropriate to their operations, to continuously monitor the ferry or the ferry facility, the area surrounding it, all restricted areas and all interfaces, through a combination of lighting, watchkeepers, security guards, deck watches, automatic intrusion detection devices, surveillance equipment and waterborne patrols.

• Marginal note:Lighting

  (2) The following shall be considered when establishing the appropriate level and location of lighting:

  • (a) domestic ferry and domestic ferry facility personnel shall be able to detect activities on and around the ferry and the ferry facility, on both the shoreside and the waterside;

  • (b) the lighting shall facilitate the identification of persons at access points;

  • (c) the lighting may be provided through coordination between the ferry and the ferry facility and, if applicable, the port administration; and

  • (d) in the case of a ferry, when lighting is necessary for a ferry that is under way, the lighting shall be the maximum available that is consistent with safe navigation, taking into account the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972.

• Marginal note:Coordination of procedures

  (3) Security procedures for monitoring may be coordinated between a domestic ferry and a domestic ferry facility and, if applicable, a port administration.

Marginal note:Domestic ferry

• 96. (1) In the case of a domestic ferry, security procedures for monitoring at MARSEC level 1 shall be established in the security plan in respect of the ferry, as appropriate to its operations, including

  • (a) conducting emergency searches of the ferry;

  • (b) identifying and fixing any system failure and any malfunction of monitoring equipment;

  • (c) continually monitoring any automatic intrusion detection device; and

  • (d) lighting the deck and the ferry access points sufficiently during the period between sunset and sunrise and during periods of limited visibility to allow the visual identification of persons seeking to board the ferry.

• Marginal note:Domestic ferry facility

  (2) In the case of a domestic ferry facility, security procedures for monitoring at MARSEC level 1 shall be established in the security plan in respect of the ferry facility in accordance with the requirements in section 95.

Marginal note:Domestic ferry

• 97. (1) In the case of a domestic ferry, additional security procedures for monitoring at MARSEC level 2 shall be established in the security plan in respect of the ferry, as appropriate to its operations, including

  • (a) increasing the frequency and detail of security patrols;

  • (b) increasing the coverage and intensity of lighting;

  • (c) using, or increasing the use of, security and surveillance equipment;

  • (d) assigning additional personnel as security lookouts; and

  • (e) coordinating monitoring by means of foot, vehicle or waterborne patrols, if they are provided by a ferry facility or a port administration.

• Marginal note:Domestic ferry facility

  (2) In the case of a domestic ferry facility, additional security procedures for monitoring at MARSEC level 2 shall be established in the security plan in respect of the ferry facility, as appropriate to its operations, including

  • (a) increasing the coverage and intensity of lighting and surveillance equipment, including through the provision of additional lighting and surveillance;

  • (b) increasing the frequency of foot, vehicle or waterborne patrols; and

  • (c) assigning additional security personnel to monitoring and patrols.