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Register a UK 406 MHz emergency beacon
Before you sail to or from the UK, submit your voyage plan with details of your vessel, people and goods on board. Find out how to change or cancel your report.
Use form C97 to record the crew members on your voyage.
Use form C94 to declare a ship's voyage and cargo.
Use the online service or postal form HO50 to reclaim excise duty on mineral (hydrocarbon) oil used on board a vessel or hovercraft on a marine voyage.
Use form C95 to declare a ship's stores.
Use form C96 to declare the crew's effects.
Use form C98 to record the passengers on your voyage.
This page contains documents relating to the Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (SI 2022/1269) ("Grandfather Rights” Regulations).
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Use form C1330 to notify that a pleasure craft arriving from abroad that will not be released from customs control.
Check customs rules for private individuals who leave the UK in their pleasure craft and travel to other countries.
Complete the forms within MSF 5623, to apply for a new continuous synopsis record (CSR) or to make amendments to your CSR.
Use form C384 (Vessels) to apply for release on payment of Customs Duty or VAT on a private vessel.
Maritime weather and tide conditions - navigation equipment, radios and emergency beacons, register a 406 beacon
Use form C945 to request authority for the shipment of spirits and tobacco products for use as stores, free of duty, on a ship.
Check customs rules for private individuals who travel to the UK from another country in a pleasure craft
Find out how to reclaim Excise Duty on fuel used in making marine voyages if you're entitled to claim.
Check if your use of oils for an industrial purpose means you do not have to pay Fuel Duty or you’re entitled to a repayment.
Information about the special training required by ratings and officers who work on tankers, passenger ships and high-speed craft
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