Regulation

MOD shipping regulations for safety and environmental protection

DSA02 regulations supersede JSP430 regulations. JSP430 guidance may be used only until all defence Codes of Practice (DCoPs) are published.

From:
Ministry of Defence and Defence Safety Authority
Published
4 April 2017
Last updated
2 January 2019 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on

These regulations have been superseded, when the regulations come into force as part of a set of Defence Maritime Regulations for Health Safety and Environmental Protection, which incorporate the MOD Shipping, Ports and Harbours, and Defence Diving Regulations into a single set.

Documents

[Withdrawn] MOD shipping regulations for safety and environmental protection

Ref: DSA02 - DMR

PDF, 475 KB, 30 pages

Details

These regulations will be superseded on 1st January 2019, when the regulations come into force as part of a set of Defence Maritime Regulations for Health Safety and Environmental Protection, which incorporate the MOD Shipping, Ports and Harbours, and Defence Diving Regulations into a single set.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) shipping regulations are issued by the Defence Maritime Regulator (DMR), replacing JSP (Joint Service Publications) 430, issue 5. They are the central DMR regulatory framework for the safety and environmental protection of all MOD shipping activity.

The goal of the regulations is to ensure all MOD shipping activities (warships, government and chartered) can achieve outcomes at least as good as those governed by UK and international legislation. For example:

  • the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  • UK environment acts
  • Merchant Shipping Act 1995

The regulations have common origins in the Carver report into the Herald of Free Enterprise and Piper Alpha Disasters, whose lessons informed the Merchant Shipping (International Safety Management Code) Regulations and the principles of Offshore Safety and Environmental Cases. These MOD shipping regulations are to enable military activity to be compliant with the law and where there are exemptions to ensure defence lessons are applied.

The regulations align, where practicable, the goals of statute, or with defence lessons and seek to achieve outcomes as least as good where there are disapplications, exemptions and derogations in transition to war and during warlike activities. All supporting information and guidance has been moved to supporting Defence Codes of Practice (DCoP).

Published 4 April 2017
Last updated 2 January 2019 + show all updates

  1. These regulations have been withdrawn and are superseded by Defence Maritime Regulations for Health Safety and Environmental Protection.

  2. Added announcement of when these regulations are superseded.

  3. First published.