Marine Order 27 (Safety of navigation and radio equipment) 2016
34Urgency messages
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34 Urgency messages
(1) If an urgency message that follows the urgency signal is a long message, a medical call or, in an area of heavy radio traffic, a repeated message, the radio frequency used for the message must:
(a) not be the distress frequency; and
(b) be stated in the DSC urgency announcement or urgency message.
(2) A person must not interfere with the transmission of the urgency message that follows the transmission of the DSC urgency announcement or urgency signal.
(3) When the master of a vessel who sent the urgency message is satisfied that action called for by the urgency message is no longer necessary, the master must ensure that a further message is transmitted cancelling the urgency message.
(4) An offence against subsection (2) or (3) is a strict liability offence.
(5) A person is liable to a civil penalty if the person contravenes subsection (2) or (3).