# The Export of Goods (Control) Order 1992, Marine


Submersible vehicles or surface vessels, as follows:
Note: For equipment for submersible vehicles, see:
Category 5 information security for encrypted communication equipment;
Category 6 for sensors;
Categories 7 and 8 for navigation equipment;
Category 8A for underwater equipment.
a. Manned, tethered submersible vehicles designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000m;
b. Manned, untethered submersible vehicles:
1. Designed to operate autonomously and having a lifting capacity of:
a. 10% or more of their weight in air; and
b. 15kN or more;
2. Designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000m; or
3. a. Designed to carry a crew of 4 or more;
b. Designed to operate autonomously for 10 hours or more;
c. Having a range of 25 nautical miles or more; and
d. Having a length of 21m or less;
c. Unmanned, tethered submersible vehicles designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000m:
1. Designed for self—propelled manoeuvre using propulsion motors or thrusters specified in sub—head a.2. of entry 8A002; or
2. Having a fibre optic data link;
d. Unmanned, untethered submersible vehicles:
1. Designed for deciding a course relative to any geographical reference without real—time human assistance;
2. Having an acoustic data or command link; or
3. Having a fibre optic data or command link exceeding 1,000m;
e. Ocean salvage systems with a lifting capacity exceeding 5MN for salvaging objects from depths exceeding 250m and having either of the following:
1. Dynamic positioning systems capable of position keeping within 20m of a given point provided by the navigation system; or
2. Seafloor navigation and navigation integration systems for depths exceeding 1,000m with positioning accuracies to within 10m of a predetermined point;
f. Surface—effect vehicles (fully skirted variety) with a maximum design speed, fully loaded, exceeding 30 knots in a significant wave height of 1·25m (Sea State 3) or more, a cushion pressure exceeding 3,830Pa, and a light—ship—to—full—load displacement ratio of less than 0·7;
g. Surface—effect vehicles (rigid sidewalls) with a maximum design speed, fully loaded, exceeding 40 knots in a significant wave height of 3·25m (Sea State 5) or more;
h. Hydrofoil vessels with active systems for automatically controlling foil systems, with a maximum design speed, fully loaded, of 40 knots or more in a significant wave height of 3·25m (Sea State 5) or more;
i. Small waterplane area vessels with:
1. A full load displacement exceeding 500 tonnes with a maximum design speed, fully loaded, exceeding 35 knots in a significant wave height of 3·25m (Sea State 5) or more; or
2. A full load displacement exceeding 1,500 tonnes with a maximum design speed, fully loaded, exceeding 25 knots in a significant wave height of 4m (Sea State 6) or more.
Technical Note: A small waterplane area vessel is defined by the following formula: waterplane area at an operational design draft less than2 × (displaced volume at the operational design draught)7⅔;.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3092/schedule/1/part/n10/crossheading/4-marine (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-goods-control-order-1992/schedule-1/part-n10/crossheading-4-marine
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.