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MCA leaflet explaining specifications and recommendations for using VHF DSC radios on private leisure craft
Leaflet outlining the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GDMSS) processes for distress and hazard alerts at sea, together with a sea area map.
The standards needed for seat belts installed in buses, coaches and minibuses (including van conversions).
Guidance for local authorities on the information they need to publish about highway maintenance.
Guidelines for organisations or contractors supplying documents for DfT to publish on GOV.UK.
Providing an introduction to the Phase One environmental statement and a description of Phase One of HS2.
These maps show the HS2 Phase 2b safeguarding area between Crewe and Manchester.
Updated instructions for the guidance of surveyors, applied to craft built on or after 1 July 2008.
This leaflet is designed for people who may have been requested by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) to attend an interview.
List of contact details for fuel oil suppliers who are registered as compliant with MARPOL annex VI.
Survey standards for hull construction, machinery, electrical and control systems which vessels are expected to be built and maintained.
Standards of VTS training and certification recognised by the United Kingdom Competent Authority. IALA standards and the UK National Occupational Standards. It also provides information on the procedures for the training and…
Amendment 2 includes the 2014 Amendments to the MLC which came into force internationally in January 2017.
This MGN has been produced for owners and skippers of small fishing vessels as an aid to assess the stability of their vessels in accordance with MSN 1871 Amendment No.2 The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Fishing V…
MCA interpretation for SOLAS Chapter III rotational deployments of MES, roles different parties should play and pass criteria for deployment
Notice to all owners, managing agents, skippers, designers, builders, surveyors, crew and certifying authorities of yachts and powerboats including pleasure vessels and small commercial vessels
This MGN explains the dangerous use provisions of the MSA to powered watercraft, the obligations and offences for different actors, and the role of the MCA as the main statutory authority for enforcement.
MGN provides guidance on use of Electronic Record Books for the purpose of recording Navigational Activities as stipulated within SOLAS Chapter V/Reg 28 and IMO Resolution A.916(22).
Notice to all designers, builders, owners, operators, employers, certifying authorities Masters and Remote Operators, working with ROUVs. This information is provided for use by persons operating ROUVs, certified under Th…
This notice updates key information regarding the UK’s marine equipment conformity assessment regime, including in relation to the end of the ‘standstill’ period on 31 December 2022.
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