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How to manage an MOT centre for HGVs, trailers, buses and coaches, including how to prepare your centre for tests, the booking process and health and safety requirements.
The likely significant route-wide environmental effects of the construction and operation of HS2 Phase One.
How to avoid the top 10 reasons lorries and heavy goods vehicles don't pass the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) inspection.
List of successful bids for the International Green Corridor Fund (IGCF).
The syllabuses for Large Yacht Helideck Safety Training are hosted on this page.
Providing policy makers, evaluators, local authorities and partnership organisations with hints and tips for carrying out logic mapping.
Guidance on requirement for a document of compliance and the special requirements for ships carrying dangerous goods.
This amendment provides guidance for all vessels engaged in transfers of persons at anchor or underway as regards
Provides links to websites containing information countering piracy, armed robbery and other acts of violence against merchant shipping
Describes the system for officers and ratings to gain certificates for tugs working in near coastal areas and categorised waters.
Provides guidance to help fishermen make decisions regarding the operation of their vessel using the Wolfson Stability Guidance Method.
For guidance on how to comply with the audit and self-assessment requirements of safety management code for domestic passenger ships as set out in the amended MSN 1869(M).
These regulations are amended by the 2015 regulations to place a duty on shipowners to ensure there are sufficient copies of the code available on a ship so that is accessible to all seafarers.
Life-saving appliances - means of recovery of persons from the water by ships and boats - plans, procedures and acceptance of recovery equipment
Guidance on the implementation of Port Waste Reception Facilities for ships and harbours/ports/terminals. The purpose of revising this MGN is to reference new methods of payment for Port Waste Exemption applications.
This MIN outlines the recognised qualifications available from official bodies, which the MCA accept for issuing a ship’s cooks certificate of competency.
This notice provides information on the Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) regulations 2011 which implement UK obligations under the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Agreement on Port State Control in UK law.
This MSN provides the technical requirements of the obligations contained in the merchant shipping (control and management of ships’ ballast water and sediments) regulations 2022 (SI 2022/737).
Guidance on the transport of patient specimens suspected of containing Coronavirus (COVID-19).
A national implementation plan outlining how the UK will comply with the persons with reduced mobility (PRM) technical specification for rail interoperability.
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