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Marine Orders - Part 27: Radio Equipment, Issue 3 (Order No. 4 of 2006)
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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:
(a) perform ship-to-shore distress alerting by two independent means;
(b) transmit ship-to-ship distress alerting;
(c) transmit and receive on-scene communications, including appropriate SAR co-ordinating communications;
(d) transmit locating signals, unless the Manager, Ship Inspections, determines that the nature of the ship’s operations makes this requirement unnecessary; and
(e) receive maritime safety information.
The installation on the ship must be capable of assisting other ships in distress, particularly the ability to:
(f) receive shore-to-ship distress alerting; and
(g) receive ship-to-ship distress alerting.