# The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Medical Certification) Regulations 2010, Regulation 10: Fitness certificates: Code vessels and domestic passenger vessels

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) If a person has been issued with a certificate of medical fitness which is specified by the Secretary of State in Merchant Shipping Notice 1839(M) as equivalent to a medical fitness certificate for work on a Code vessel or a domestic passenger vessel, then (unless that person is the master of a domestic passenger vessel) that certificate is for the purposes of regulations 6, 7, 12 and 13 equivalent to a medical fitness certificate, but only as respects that person's work on that type of vessel.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
“Code vessel” means a vessel which—
(i)operates under a Code of Practice, and
(ii)does not go more than 60 miles from a harbour or shelter of any kind which affords entry (subject to prudence in the weather conditions prevailing) and protection from the force of weather, and
“domestic passenger vessel” means a ship which is of Class VI or Class VI(A) as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances for Passenger Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1999 .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/737/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-maritime-labour-convention-medical-certification-regulations-2010/regulation-10
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