Regulation 7 Amendment of Merchant Shipping (Port State Control) Regulations 1995

For regulation 7 there shall be substituted:

“Mandatory expanded inspection of certain ships

7.

(1)

A ship in one of the categories in Annex V, section A of MSN 1775, may be subject to an expanded inspection after a period of 12 months following the last expanded inspection carried out in a port of a State signatory to the MOU.

(2)

If such a ship is selected for inspection in accordance with regulation 5(2)(b)—

(a)

an expanded inspection shall be carried out; and

(b)

an inspection in accordance with regulation 6 may be carried out in the period between two expanded inspections.

(3)

(a)

After a period of 12 months since the last expanded inspection of a ship, the owner or master of a ship to which paragraph (1) applies shall communicate to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency all the information listed in Annex V, section B of MSN 1775 before each call at a port in the United Kingdom.

(b)

This information shall be provided at least three days before the expected time of arrival in the port or before leaving the previous port if the voyage is expected to take fewer than three days.

(c)

Any ship not complying with the requirements of sub-paragraph (a) shall be subject to an expanded inspection at the port of destination.

(4)

Subject to regulation 7A, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency shall ensure that an expanded inspection is carried out in respect of a ship to which paragraph (1) applies and which has a target factor of 7 or more at its first visit to a port in the United Kingdom after a period of 12 months since the last expanded inspection carried out in a port of a State signatory to the MOU.

(5)

For the purposes of calculating the target factor in paragraph (4) the target factor does not include the value applicable to ships of the categories referred to in Annex V, section A of MSN 1775.

(6)

An expanded inspection shall be carried out in accordance with the procedures set out in Annex V, section C of MSN 1775.

(7)

For the purposes of carrying out an expanded inspection, the inspector shall consult the public and private databases relating to ship inspection accessible through the Equasis information system.

(8)

This regulation shall not apply to a ship which to the satisfaction of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has within the previous 12 months been subject to an initial specific survey in accordance with Article 6 of Council Directive 1999/35/EC on a system of mandatory surveys for the safe operation of regular ro-ro ferry and high-speed passenger craft services^f1 or a specific survey in accordance with Article 8 of that Directive.”.