Paragraph 3 Merchant Shipping (Entry into Dangerous Spaces) Regulations 1988I1

For regulation 6 (drills), substitute—

“6.

(1)

This regulation does not apply to ships to which either Part 2 or Part 4 of the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances and Arrangements) Regulations 2020^f1 applies.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (1), the master of—

(a)

any tanker or gas carrier of 500 tons and over, and

(b)

any other ship of 1000 tons and over,

must ensure that drills simulating the rescue of a crew member from a dangerous space are held at intervals not exceeding two months, and that a record of such drills is entered in the official log book.”