1Purpose & power

1 Purpose & power

1.1 Purpose

This Part of Marine Orders:

(a) gives effect to the following regulations of Chapter V of SOLAS:

(i) 7.3, which deals with plans on board passenger ships for co-operation with search and rescue authorities;

(ii) 10.7 and 11.7, which deal with the use of mandatory ships’ routeing systems and adopted ship reporting systems;

(iii) 14, which deals with minimum safe manning;

(iv) 15 to 20, which deal with principles of bridge design and the construction, maintenance and use of navigational systems and equipment;

(v) 21, which deals with the internationally adopted code of signals and search and rescue manual;

(vi) 23, which deals with pilot transfer arrangements;

(vii) 24 to 26, which deal with steering gear and systems;

(viii) 27 and 28, which deal with nautical charts and publications and the keeping of navigational records;

(ix) 29 to 35, which deal with the 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; and

(x) 22, which deals with navigation bridge visibility.

(b) gives effect to regulation 5-1 of Chapter VI of SOLAS, which deals with material safety data sheets;

Note: The current text of Chapter V and VI are to be found in the SOLAS Consolidated Edition (2009), amended by IMO Resolution MSC.201(81) and, with effect from 1 January 2011, by IMO Resolution MSC.282(86).

(c) prescribes matters for the purposes of the following provisions of the Navigation Act:

(i) section 229, which provides for regulations to make provision for or in relation to signals of distress and urgency;

(ii) section 232, which provides for regulations to make provision for or in relation to the equipping of ships with compasses and the examination and adjustment of compasses on ships;

(iii) section 235, which provides for regulations to prescribe requirements for carrying out musters, boat drills, fire drills, collision drills and other prescribed drills, and for recording them in the official log-book;

(iv) subsection 269A(1), which provides for regulations to prescribe matters for and in relation to the sending of safety signals and messages;

(v) paragraph 425(1)(db), which provides for the regulations to prescribe matters providing for and in relation to the safe navigation and operation of ships; and

(vi) paragraph 425(1)(e), which provides for the regulations to prescribe matters providing for and in relation to the safety of persons, including pilots, going on or coming from, or on board, ships.