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Code of practice for the construction, machinery, equipment, survey and manning of police boats.
For the guidance of surveyors in surveying fire protection arrangements to ensure compliance with requirements covering merchant ships
Obligations to maintain a list of crew, including all changes, at an address in the United Kingdom.
Engine manufacturers' database and guide for builders, owners, skippers, managers, surveyors and measurers of UK registered fishing vessels.
Survey standards for hull construction, machinery, electrical and control systems which vessels are expected to be built and maintained.
Notice to ship owners, operators and managers, masters, officers and crew, authorised service providers, lifeboat equipment manufacturers and UK authorised recognised organisations
Draft regulations to update the existing requirements for the safety inspection regime for roll on, roll off (ro-ro) passenger ships and high-speed craft.
The 2014 MLC regulations form part of the UK's approach to ensuring the safety and protection of seafarers on UK flagged vessels and foreign flagged vessels whilst in the UK.
Annex 1 to marine guidance notice 272 contains a voyage data recorder performance test certification.
Information on the procedure for applying for a substantial equivalence on UK flagged vessels, which are subject to the MLC, 2006.
Survey and certification requirements with reference to air pollution from ships and clarification of the term important repair.
This MGN draws attention to and provides clarification on the inspection regime applicable to RoRo and high speed passenger craft operating a regular service out of a UK port.
Updated instructions for the guidance of surveyors, applied to craft built on or after 1 July 2008.
The MCA recognises organisations to act as aviation inspection bodies to assess and certify shipboard heliports onboard UK yachts.
Large Commercial Yacht Code requirements: construction, maintenance, operation, and responsibilities for surveying and certifying of large commercial yachts.
UKSR LYS advice notes for those who wish to have their vessel projects surveyed.
Crew accommodation standards as a substantial equivalence to MLC standard A3.1 for new UK vessels under 200GT, ordinarily engaged in commercial activities.
Substantially equivalent accommodation standards agreed by UK tripartite working group for new vessels of 200GT to less than 500GT.
Guidance note recommending a common format for stability information booklets for use on board fishing vessels.
Instructions for guidance to surveyors, on maritime and caastguard Agency (MCA) construction standards and policies.
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