MGN 627(M) Amendment 2 - Guidance on changes and available exemptions against requirements introduced by the Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous amendments) Regulations 2022
Clarifies requirements introduced by the Regulations, colloquially known as the “Grandfather rights” Regulations. Amendment 2 clarifies some requirements in section 2
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Notice to all Domestic passenger ship owners, Recognised Organisations, Shipbuilders, Shiprepairers, Ship Masters and Surveyors.
This notice replaces MSN 627(M) Amendment 1 and should be read in conjunction with The Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022, MSN 1699(M) Amendment 3 and MSN 1670(M) Amendment 2.
This MGN provides guidance on:
a) changes implemented by the Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (UK Statutory Instruments 2022 No. 1269) (“the amending Regulations”) as a result of the older domestic passenger vessels Grandfather Rights review; and
b) amendments to the exemption provision made by the amending Regulations.
The exemptions dealt with in this MGN include:
a) permanent exemptions, which allow alternative arrangements in the circumstances specified;
b) temporary exemptions permitted against some or all of the new requirements introduced by the amending Regulations to facilitate an extension of the two-year phase-in period afforded by the Regulations.
This Amendment 2 gives clarifications in the following paragraphs:
- 2.4 on fire detection requirements
- 2.5 on the application of fixed firefighting requirements.
- 2.6 on the requirements for powered bilge-pumps.
- 2.7 on the requirements for bilge alarms.