MSN 1676 (M) Amendment 1 - Merchant shipping life-saving appliances regulations
Notice to all shipowners and operators, recognised organisations, certifying authorities, shipbuilders, ship repairers, masters and officers, and surveyors.
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This Merchant Shipping Notice (MSN) forms an integral part of the Merchant Shipping (LifeSaving Appliances and Arrangements) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/501) and the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances For Passenger Ships Of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2723) and is made mandatory by way of references to it in both sets of Regulations.
This Notice provides the reader with the technical requirements referred to in the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances and Arrangements) Regulations 2020, which apply to ships of all Classes other than Classes III to VI(A), and bring UK law up to date in terms of the requirements in Chapter III of the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (SOLAS). The carriage requirements in Part B of SOLAS Chapter III are incorporated into the 2020 Regulations and these (SOLAS) requirements can now be directly referred to.
This Notice contains the carriage requirements for life-saving appliances for UK ships which are not within the scope of SOLAS Chapter III and which were previously contained in the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances For Ships Other Than Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1999