Statutory Instruments
Merchant Shipping
Made
7th November 2013
Laid before Parliament
12th November 2013
Coming into force
31st December 2013
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 267(3) and (4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(1):
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 31st December 2013.
2.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2012(2) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “EMCIP”, for “European Marine Information Casualty Platform” substitute “European Marine Casualty Information Platform”.
(3) In regulation 6(4), for “paragraphs 1(a) and (b) and (2)”, substitute “paragraphs 1 and 2(a) and (b)”.
(4) After regulation 13(7) insert
“(8) Information obtained from a voyage data recorder may be provided at the discretion of the Chief Inspector to the ship’s owner.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Stephen Hammond
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
7th November 2013
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2012.
Regulation 2(1) is amended to correct the definition of EMCIP.
Regulation 6 is amended to exclude the Maritime and Coastguard Agency from the requirement in regulation 6(4) to provide a report to the Chief Inspector.
A new paragraph (8) is added to regulation 13 to enable the Chief Inspector to provide information obtained from voyage data recorders, taken from a ship by an inspector in the course of a safety investigation, to the ship’s owner without the need for the ship’s owner to apply to a Court.
An impact assessment has been produced for this instrument and is available from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Mountbatten House, Grosvenor Square, Southampton SO15 2JU or from their website which is www.maib.gov.uk. A copy has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament.