Regulations for Passenger Ship Administration Article 37-1

For domestic passenger ships required to prepare a passenger manifest under Article 11, Paragraph 2, Subparagraph 7 of the Law of Ships, the captain or designated personnel shall verify the identity of each passenger upon boarding. This applies starting three months after the effective date of the amendments to these Regulations on May 2, 2025. The passenger manifest shall be uploaded to the designated information platform in the format specified by the maritime authority, by midnight on the day of departure or within six hours after departure.If there are justifiable reasons for not being able to comply with the pre-ceding paragraph, the shipowner shall propose alternative measures, speci-fying the following, and implement them after approval by the maritime authority:1. Justifiable reasons for not being able to comply with the preceding para-graph.2. Planned approach, implementation period, and feasibility assessment of the alternative measures.3. Mechanism for confirming the accuracy of the passenger manifest, which shall include internal personnel responsible for execution and supervision, timing, and frequency of execution.Failure to upload the passenger manifest in accordance with Paragraph 1, or failure to implement alternative measures approved by the maritime authority in accordance with the preceding paragraph, shall be deemed as not having a passenger manifest.