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.