The Ministry of Transport ("MOT") has recently issued the Decision on Amending the Administrative Provisions for Port Engineering Construction (the "Decision"), the Decision on Amending the Rules of the People's Republic of China on the Minimum Safe Manning of Ships and the Decision on Amending the Administrative Provisions for the Construction of Shipping Lanes, all of which have taken effect immediately from the date of issuance.
The Decision revises the first item, formerly reading "one copy of the original application document", under the previous Article 14, to read now: "the application document"; and rewrites the second item thereunder from "one copy of the preliminary design document and the electronic copy thereof" to "the preliminary design document", and the third item thereunder from "one copy of the record-filing certificate" to "the record-filing certificate". Meanwhile, the first, second and third items under Paragraph 1 of the original Article 17, formerly reading "one copy of the original application document", "one copy of the construction drawing design document and the electronic copy thereof" and "one copy of the approved preliminary design document" respectively, are amended under the Decision to read "the application document", "the construction drawing design document" and "the approved preliminary design document". In addition, the Decision introduces modifications to Articles 36 and 48, and adds a new article as Article 75.