Regulation 6 Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate

From the first date on or after 1st November 2001 on which a passenger certificate is issued in relation to a ship, the company owning the ship or having operational responsibility for it shall hold in relation to that ship a valid Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate.

Where an authorised person has audited the safety management system for a ship and is satisfied that the safety management system for the ship is suitable to meet the objectives set out in Merchant Shipping Notice 1754(M) and, so far as the system is being operated, is being implemented effectively, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency may issue a Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate which, subject to paragraph (3) and to regulation 9(3), shall be valid until the expiry of the ship’s passenger certificate.

A Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate shall cease to be valid:

Where a Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate has ceased to be valid in accordance with paragraph (3), the Maritime and Coastguard Agency may endorse it as valid until the expiry of the ship’s passenger certificate if an authorised person who audits the safety management system of the ship after the Certificate has ceased to be valid is satisfied that the safety management system is being implemented effectively.

A company shall ensure that a valid Domestic Ship Safety Management Certificate held in relation to the ship is carried on board each ship owned by it or for which it has operational responsibility.