Regulation 16 Inquiries and investigations

Section 728 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894^f1, sections 55 to 58 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1970^f2, section 27 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 and the Merchant Shipping (Formal Investigations) Rules 1985^f3 shall apply (subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 5 to the Regulations) to casualties to which these Regulations apply when they involve any submersible craft or supporting apparatus which is not a ship, as those sections and Rules apply to casualties involving ships, and as if references in those sections and Rules, in whatever terms, to ships or activities connected therewith included references to submersible craft or supporting apparatus, or activities connected therewith.