A bill to amend the Freight Containers (Safety) Ordinance and its subsidiary legislation will be gazetted tomorrow and tabled at the Legislative Council on April 26.

The amendment will update the legislation to keep it in line with the latest international safety requirements on containers, the Economic Development & Labour Bureau said.

It covers four broad categories, including:

* expanding the application of the ordinance to cover the approval of containers and the examination procedures irrespective of the containers' origin of manufacture;

* assigning the functions of containers approval solely to authorised persons;

* setting out the conditions under which the owner, bailee or lessee of a container will have to remove the safety approval plate from the container in question; and,