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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1419",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Navigation Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-navigation-bridge-visibility-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations give effect to amendments to Regulation 22 of Chapter V of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974 (SOLAS) adopted on 23rd May by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) set out in Annex 2 of the MSC Resolution MSC.31(63).\nThey contain requirements for all ships of 45 metres or more in length constructed on or after 1st July 1998 as to the visibility from the navigation bridge (including the position and construction of the windows) (Regulation 5).\nExisting such ships are required to comply, so far as practicable, with regulation 4(1)(a) and (b) (certain provisions relating to the view of the sea from the conning position) (Regulation 6).\nThe Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ships of Classes IV, V, VI and VI(A)—Bridge Visibility) Regulations 1992 are amended so that they cease to apply to ships of 45 metres or more in length (Regulation 3).\nThe SOLAS Convention and MSC Resolution MSC.31(63) may be obtained from IMO, 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR.\nDocument EN ISO 8468 (the “ISO standards” referred to in regulation 2(2)) may be obtained from BS, 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1419/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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