The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) Regulations 2010

Application U.K.

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations, apart from regulation 11 and Schedule 1, apply to the following vessels, including Government ships, operating on any waterway in the United Kingdom which is a Zone 1, 2, 3 or 4 waterway—

(a) tugs and pushers intended—

(i) for towing or pushing vessels to which sub-paragraph (d) applies, or for moving such vessels alongside, or

(ii) for towing or pushing floating equipment, or for moving such equipment alongside,

(b) passenger vessels,

(c) floating equipment, and

(d) any other vessel—

(i) having a length (L) of 20 metres or more, or

(ii) for which the product of length (L), breadth (B) and draught (T) is a volume of 100m³ or more.

(2) These Regulations do not apply to—

(a) ferries,

(b) naval vessels,

(c) sea-going vessels, including sea-going tugs and pusher craft, which—

(i) operate or are based on tidal waters, but

(ii) operate temporarily on inland waterways and carry the relevant certificates.

(3) The relevant certificates referred to in paragraph (2) are—

(a) the relevant Convention Certificates,

[F1 (b) in the case of a passenger vessel which does not hold all the relevant Convention Certificates—

(i) a Passenger Certificate appropriate to the class of passenger ship;

(ii) a Passenger Ship Safety Certificate; or

(iii) a short international voyage Passenger Ship Safety Certificate issued pursuant to the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015; or

(iv) a certificate on safety rules and standards for passenger ships issued by an EEA State in conformity with Directive 2009/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety rules and standards for passenger ships as it has effect in EU law,]

(c) in the case of a recreational craft which does not hold all the relevant Convention Certificates, a certificate of the State of which the vessel carries the flag [F2 ; or

(d) in the case of a seagoing vessel which does not hold all the relevant Convention Certificates, the relevant certificates and the freeboard marks required by the law of its flag state]

(4) Regulation 11 and Schedule 1 apply to vessels, used for goods transport on any inland waterway in the United Kingdom, which have a total dead weight of 20 tonnes or more and—

(a) a length (L) of less than 20 metres, or

(b) for which the product of length (L), breadth (B) and draught (T) is less than 100m³ .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Reg. 3(3)(d) and word inserted (23.2.2019) by The Merchant Shipping (Technical Requirements for Inland Waterway Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/160), regs. 1(2), 4(b)