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The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterway and Limited Coastal Operations) (Boatmasters’ Qualifications and Hours of Work) Regulations 2006

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2015-07-15

MERCHANT SHIPPING;SAFETY

These Regulations:(a) implement, as far as it is necessary to do so for the United Kingdom, Council Directive 96/50/EC of 23 July 1996 on the harmonisation of the conditions for obtaining national boatmasters’ certificates for the carriage of goods and passengers by inland waterway (OJ No. L235, 17.9.96, P.31), as amended by Regulation (EC) 1882/2003 of the EU Parliament and Council of 29 September 2003 (OJ No. L284, 31.10.2003, p.1);(b) provide for standards of competence to be attained by masters of passenger vessels carrying no more than 250 passengers engaged on short voyages close to the coast;(c) re-enact Part 3 of the Merchant Shipping (Local Passenger Vessels) (Masters’ Licences and Hours, Manning and Training) Regulations 1993 (self-employed masters’ hours of work).