Marine Order 21, issue 8
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4.1 This Order gives effect to the following regulations of SOLAS:
- Regulations Subject matter
- Chapter III
- Regulations 19 and 30 Emergency training and drills
- Chapter V
- Regulation 7.3 Plans on board passenger ships for cooperation with search and rescue authorities
- Regulation 10.7 Mandatory ships’ routeing systems
- Regulation 11.7 Adopted ship reporting systems
- Regulation 14 Minimum safe manning
- Regulations 15 to 20 Principles of bridge design and the construction, maintenance and use of navigational systems and equipment
- Regulation 21 International Code of Signals and search and rescue manual
- Regulation 22 Navigation bridge visibility
- Regulation 23 Pilot transfer arrangements
- Regulations 24 to 26 Steering gear and systems
- Regulation 27 Nautical charts and publications
- Regulation 28 Keeping navigational records
- Regulations 29 to 35 Use of life-saving signals and messages (including misuse of distress signals), operational limitations on passenger ships and general principles of safe navigation and voyage planning
- Chapter VI
- Regulation 5-1 Material safety data sheets
4.2 This Order also prescribes matters for the following provisions of the Navigation Act:
| Provision | Subject matter | | Section 229 | Signals of distress and urgency | | Section 232 | Equipping ships with compasses, and examination and adjustment of compasses on ships | | Section 235 | Carrying out musters, boat drills, fire drills, collision drills and other prescribed drills, and recording them in the official log-book | | Subsection 269A(1) | Sending safety signals and messages | | Paragraph 425(1)(db) | Safe navigation and operation of ships | | Paragraph 425(1)(e) | Safety of persons, including pilots, going on or coming from, or on board, ships |