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Marine Orders - Part 27: Radio Equipment, Issue 2 (Order No. 9 of 2002)
7Functional Requirements
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7 Functional Requirements
7.1 Every SOLAS ship, while at sea, must be capable of meeting the functional requirements set out in regulation 4 of Chapter IV of SOLAS.
7.2 Every non-SOLAS ship, while at sea, must be capable of providing for the safety of the ship, particularly the ability to:
perform ship-to-shore distress alerting by two independent means:
transmit ship-to-ship distress alerting;
transmit and receive on-scene communications, including appropriate SAR co-ordinating communications;
transmit locating signals, unless the Chief Marine Surveyor determines that the nature of the ship’s operations makes this requirement unnecessary; and
receive maritime safety information.
The installation on the ship must be capable of assisting other ships in distress, particularly the ability to:
receive shore-to-ship distress alerting; and
receive ship-to-ship distress alerting.