Regulation 3 Responsibility for carrying out surveys
Except as provided in sub-paragraph (2) below, and subject also to regulation 16, surveys of ships shall be carried out by a surveyor appointed by an appropriate Certificate Authority.
In respect of surveys of radio installations:
surveys in a port in the United Kingdom in respect of passenger ships shall be carried out by a surveyor appointed by British Telecom.
where a survey is to be carried out at a port outside the United Kingdom it shall be carried out, at the option of the shipowner, by:
a surveyor appointed by British Telecom, or
if the port is in a country or area in respect of which the Secretary of State has appointed a local surveyor, by that local surveyor, or
in accordance with regulation 16 below.
Subject to sub-paragraph (d) below, surveys:
in a port in the United Kingdom, or in the territorial waters thereof, of safety equipment of cargo ships; and
of ro-ro passenger ships,shall be carried out by a surveyor of the Marine Safety Agency.
Surveys of passenger ships, other than ro-ro passenger ships, may be carried out in part by a surveyor appointed by another Certifying Authority authorised for that purpose by the Secretary of State.
Surveys of radio-navigational equipment may at the option of the owner be carried out by British Telecom.
Where in accordance with this regulation a survey has been carried out by a surveyor appointed by a particular appropriate Certifying Authority, the subsequent references to a Certifying Authority in relation to that survey or to any certificate issued as a result of it, are to that Certifying Authority.