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Rail contract and ancillary legal documents for West Midlands Trains.
Video to help developers and operators of roadside HGV parking and driver welfare facilities to submit high quality planning applications.
This guidance provides details on how to conduct and record a risk assessment, and how safety management systems can help to improve safety on fishing vessels.
Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Norway, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.
What kinds of vessels get expanded inspections by the MCA, what happens during the inspections, notice, and where you can find more advice.
Broadcast schedules and information concerning navigational and meteorological warnings and meteorological forecasts that ships require to safely navigate.
Guidance to drivers on changes in the law which allow category B licence holders to drive alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) up to 4.25 tonnes.
MCA guidelines for ports to ensure a co-ordinated local and national response to an oil spill.
Guidance for port-bound vehicles on the A20 approaching Dover.
For the guidance of surveyors in surveying fire protection arrangements to ensure compliance with requirements covering merchant ships
A guide to use of the contributory factors data which form part of the Department for Transport's reported road casualty statistics, and the new road safety factors which will in time replace them.
A guide on how to avoid overloading heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and the effect it has on vehicles and the road.
Criteria for vehicles to be exempt from needing an MOT test each year if they were first registered more than 40 years ago.
For use by ships, aircraft of persons in distress when communicating with rescue units.
This Marine Guidance Note provides the UK shipping industry with best practice guidance to facilitate safe carriage, and potential charging of, electric vehicles onboard roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) passenger ferries. The MCA ha…
The UK Beacon Registry has created an online portal for registration of EPIRBs and 406 MHz PLBs which is now live and very user friendly. Offline registration is still available.
Mini roundabouts usage, experiences and guidance for those involved in highway management.
Qualifications or accreditations that are accepted if you want to qualify to become an MOT tester for cars, private buses and light commercial vehicles.
The main things that will be checked when you take your motorcycle for an MOT test.
Amends MSN 1699(M) to implement amendments to the technical requirements, in relation to stability and Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) requirements.
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