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These Rules introduce at different specified times in the near future according to the length of a vessel:
a system of surveys and periodical inspections for fishing vessels registered in the United Kingdom; a United Kingdom fishing vessel certificate will be issued to vessels which meet the specified requirements; and
construction rules for fishing vessels including specified requirements in respect of the hull and equipment, watertight integrity, freeboard and stability, boilers and machinery, bilge pumping arrangements, electrical equipment and installations, miscellaneous plant and equipment, structural fire protection and fire detection, protection of the crew, nautical equipment including charts and documentation to be carried.
From the date of coming into operation of these Rules:
fishing vessels must comply with specified requirements for life-saving appliances and equipment, including fire appliances to be carried and requirements for musters and drills (these provisions reproduce existing requirements); and
provision is made for excepting vessels from requirements relating to the construction of the hull or machinery in a particular manner or to the provision of particular equipment or to the making of particular provisions if another manner of construction or provision of equipment or other provision is made which is at least as effective as that required by the Rules.
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