Regulation
1 Application Regulation
1 Application Regulation
2 Definitions Regulation
3 Exemptions and
equivalents Regulation
4 Navigational
warnings Regulation
5 Meteorological
services and warnings Regulation
6 Ice Patrol Service Regulation
7 Search and rescue
services Regulation
8 Life-saving signals Regulation
9 Hydrographic
services Regulation
10 Ships’ routeing Regulation
11 Ship reporting systems Regulation
12 Vessel traffic services Regulation
13 Establishment and operation
of aids to navigation Regulation
14 Ships’ manning Regulation
15 Principles relating to bridge
design, design and arrangement of navigational systems and equipment and bridge
procedure Regulation
16 Maintenance of equipment Regulation
17 Electromagnetic compatibility Regulation
18 Approval, surveys and
performance standards of navigational systems and equipment and voyage data
recorder Regulation
19 Carriage requirements for
shipborne navigational systems and equipment Regulation
20 Voyage data recorders Regulation
21 International Code of Signals Regulation
22 Navigation bridge visibility Regulation
23 Pilot transfer arrangements Regulation
24 Use of heading and/or track
control systems Regulation
25 Operation of main source of electrical power and steering gear Regulation
26 Steering gear: Testing and
drills Regulation
27 Nautical charts and nautical
publications Regulation
28 Records of navigational activities Regulation
29 Life-saving signals to be used by ships, aircraft or persons in
distress Regulation
30 Operational limitations Regulation
31 Danger messages Regulation
32 Information required in
danger messages Regulation
33 Distress messages:
Obligations and procedures Regulation
34 Safe navigation and avoidance
of dangerous situations Regulation
35 Misuse of distress signals APPENDIX
TO CHAPTER V - North Atlantic
ice Patrol
WEB LINKS
MCA HOME PAGE - http://www.mcga.gov.uk/
N.ATLANTIC ICE PATROL - http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/home.html
UK HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE - http://www.ukho.gov.uk/
INTERNTIONAL MARITIME ORGANISATION (IMO) – http://www.imo.org/
IMO DOCUMENTS - http://www.imodocs.imo.org/
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME PILOTS ASSOCIATION - http://www.impahq.org/
UK METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE -http://www.met-office.gov.uk/
UNITED NATIONS LAW OF THE SEA (UNCLOS) - http://www.univie.ac.at/RI/KONTERM/intlaw/konterm/vrkon_en/html/doku/unclos.htm
SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
Chapter V, Safety of Navigation, of the International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS V) has been completely revised. The new Regulations come into force on 1 July 2002 and are implemented under UK legislation by the Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations (2002)
This publication has been prepared to help ship-owners, masters, crews and industry to understand and comply with the new Regulations and offers practical guidance on how they should be implemented.
The publication contains the full IMO text of each Regulation. Following the text of each regulation is a brief summary and explanatory Guidance Notes relating to the Regulation or part of the Regulation.
The three separate sections are colour coded as follows:
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Links within the Regulations and to other documents.
Each Regulation is hyperlinked to the Index for easy reference. In addition each annexed document (Tables, Guidelines, IMO SN Circulars etc.) are hyperlinked to the relevant Regulations.
E.G:
Return to
INDEX
Go to Resolution A.857(20)
Certain Regulations are addressed to Contracting Governments being the IMO member States which have ratified the Convention. They also refer to Administrations, which are the statutory bodies of those member States responsible for enforcing the Regulations. In the UK the role of the Administration is taken by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Other Regulations are primarily addressed to ship owners. These in the main cover procedures, structure and layout of the bridge and navigational equipment.
Other Regulations address the responsibilities of ships’ masters and crew.
Some Regulations refer to IMO Performance Standards or IMO Resolutions. These Performance Standards and Resolutions should be considered to be part of the Regulations.
It is important that all those involved fully understand the revised Chapter V and the associated documents and recognise their own specific responsibilities under each Regulation.
Application
The Regulations apply to all United Kingdom ships and all ships flying the flag of a Contracting State wherever they may be and to all ships, whether flying the flag of a Contracting State or not, when in United Kingdom waters.
On coming into force, a number of Statutory Instruments are repealed, revoked or modified. A full table is given at Annex 1.
This Notice and the Annexed Documents supersede the following Merchant Shipping Notices:
MGN24, MGN54, MGN57, MGN63, MGN72, MGN109, MGN128, MGN133, MGN 166, MSN1716, MSN1734, M.760, M.1104, M1614, M.1638, M.1641, M.1682, M.1688