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Explanatory note

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These Regulations revoke the Merchant Shipping (Official Log Books) (Fishing Vessels) Regulations 1972, as amended, and re-enact those provisions with the following differences:

  1. (1)

    entries are required to be made in respect of the testing and inspection of the pilot's hoist;

  2. (2)

    entries are required to be made in respect of the drill, check and test of the ship's steering gear;

  3. (3)

    the requirements on the skipper to read over to an officer an entry relating to an officer's incompetence or serious negligence now includes a requirement to state the reason if the entry is not read over.