Legislations Flashcards
What are MINs?
- Marine Information Notes
- Valid for a short period of time, such as timetables for MCA exams
- Relevant to a small group of people, such as training establishments for equipment manufacturers
What are MSNs?
- Merchant Shipping Notices
- Mandatory Information that must be complied with under UK Legislation
- Relate to statutory instruments and contains technical detail of such regulations
What are MGNs?
- Marine Guidance Notes
- Gives significant advice and guidance relating to the improvement of the safety of shipping and of life at sea and to prevent or minimize pollution from shipping
What is the difference between a ‘Notice’ and a ‘Note’?
Note: General Information
Notice: Law
Which MSN contains the OOW syllabus?
MSN 1858 Requirements for deck officers on large yachts over 24m
(On MCA website now)
Which MGN explains how to Keep a Safe Navigational Watch?
MGN 315 (M)
What are the suffixes at the end of M notices and their meanings?
- (M) for merchant ship
- (F) for fishing vessels
- (M+F) for both merchant ships and fishing vessels.
What is MGN 71 (M)?
Musters, drills, on-board training and instructions, and decision support system
What is MGN 137 (M+F)?
Look-out during periods of darkness and restricted visibility
What is MGN 199 (M)?
Dangers of interaction
What is MGN 324 (M+F)?
Radio: Operational guidance on the use of VHF radio and Automatic identification Systems (AIS) at sea
What is MGN 364 (M+F)?
Navigation: Traffic separation schemes - Application of Rule 10 and Navigation in the Dover Strait
What is MGN 369 (M+F)?
Navigation: Navigation in restricted visibility
What is MGN 379?
Navigation: use of electronic navigation aids
What is MGN 477?
Seafarer Employment Agreement (SEA)
How can you obtain the weekly Notice to Mariners?
- Chart shop
- Management company post them to you
- Download them directly from the UKHO website
What are the 8 sections of Weekly Notice to Mariners?
Every Slutty Nun Sucks Little Robbies Naughty Dick
- Explanatory Notes. Publications List
- ADMIRALTY Notices to Mariners. Updates to Standard Nautical Charts
- Reprints of NAVAREA I Navigational Warnings
- Updates to ADMIRALTY Sailing Directions
- Updates to ADMIRALTY List of Lights
and Fog Signals - Updates to ADMIRALTY List of Radio Signals
- Updates to Miscellaneous ADMIRALTY Nautical Publications
- Updates to ADMIRALTY Digital Services
What is the ADMIRALTY Cumulative List?
- Released twice each year (January + June)
- Contains corrections for the previous 2 years
- This allows you to check for previous corrections that may have been missed on the weekly corrections
What are Temporary and Preliminary Notices?
- Published in weekly notices and by NAVTEX and Nav warnings
- Marked with pencil on the chart including the correction number in the bottom left hand corner
- Then removed when the particular event has ended or a permanent correction produced
What information does the Annual Summary of Admiralty Notices to Mariners contain?
- Annual Statutory Notices to Mariners Numbers
- Summary of Temporary and Preliminary Notices to Mariners still in force at the start of the year
- Cumulative Summary of Amendments to ADMIRALTY Sailing Directions
What is the Large Yacht Code?
Provides design criteria, construction standards and other safety measures for yachts carrying no more than 12 passengers so as to minimise the risk to such yachts, persons on board and the environment.
What is the Red Ensign Group Yacht Code?
The REG Code combines the existing Large Yacht Code version 3 and the Passenger Yacht Code into a single document and came into force on 1 January 2019
What is the regulation structure?
______________UN_______________
IMO - ILO
SOLAS - MARPOL - STCW - MLC
_______________MCA_____________
COSWOP - MSN - MGN - MIN
What is the difference between a Code and Convention?
Conventions contain basic requirements which are then enlarged upon and explained in the Codes
e.g.SOLAS states we must carry life buoys, LSA Code states the specifics (Size Weight), LYC States quantity.
What is the IMO?
International Maritime Organisation
The IMO is a body empowered by UN to actively develop maritime safety regulations and protect the maritime environment.
What is the MLC?
Maritime Labour Convention 2006
- Minimum requirements for seafarers to work on a ship
- Conditions of employment
- Accommodation, recreational
facilities, food and catering - Health protection, medical care, welfare and social security protection
- Compliance and enforcement
What is SOLAS?
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea
- First adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster
- Specifies minimum standards for construction, equipment and operation of ships, compatible with their safety.
What are some of the important chapters of SOLAS?
- Chapter I: General Provisions
- Chapter II-1: Construction – Structure, Subdivision and Stability, Machinery and Electrical Installations
- Chapter II-2: Construction – Fire Protection, Fire Detection and Fire Extinction
- Chapter III: Life-saving Appliances and Arrangements
- Chapter IV: Radiocommunications
- Chapter V: Safety of Navigation
- Chapter IX: Management for the Safe Operation of Ships
- XI-1: Special Measures to Enhance Maritime Safety
- XI-2: Special Measures to Enhance Maritime Security
What are the relevant IMO/ILO Conventions?
- The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)
- International conventions of the standards of training certification and watch keeping for seafarers (STCW)
- International convention for the prevention of pollution of ships
- (MARPOL)
- Maritime Labour convention (MLC)
What is the LSA Code?
The International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code
Provides more specific technical requirements for the manufacturing, testing, maintenance and record keeping of life-saving appliances.
What is the FSS Code?
International Fire Safety Systems Code
Provide international standards for fire safety systems required by revised SOLAS chapter II-2
What is MARPOL?
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 73/78
Prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from operational or accidental causes.
What are the Annexes of MARPOL?
Oh No Here She Goes Again
O - Oil
N - Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk
H - Harmful Substances Carried in Packaged Form
S - Sewage
G - Garbage
A - Air Pollution
What does Annex I of MARPOL cover?
The prevention of pollution by oil from operational measures as well as from accidental discharges.
What are Annex I discharge conditions?
- Ship proceeding en route
- Processed through oil filtering equipment
- Oil content 15ppm
- Must have an automatic stop if over 15ppm in special areas
What does Annex IV of MARPOL cover?
Contains requirements to control pollution of the sea by sewage, it is prohibited except when the ship has an approved sewage treatment plant or if the sewage has been comminuted and disinfected using an approved system at least 3 miles from nearest land. If not then it must be discharged at least 12 miles from the nearest land.