Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 1341

The Merchant Shipping (Mandatory Ships' Routeing) Regulations 1997

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"adopted mandatory ships' routeing system" means any routeing system which has been adopted by the International Maritime Organisation in accordance with the requirements of regulation V/8 of the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974[2] for mandatory use by ships or certain categories of ships and set out in the relevant Admiralty publications and annotated therein as "Mandatory Ships' Routeing System under SOLAS Regulation V/8";

"the Hydrographer of the Navy" means the person for the time being appointed to that office by the Admiralty Board.

Duty to comply with adopted mandatory ships' routeing
     3. Every United Kingdom ship, and every ship which is not a United Kingdom ship while in United Kingdom waters, shall use an adopted mandatory ships' routeing system which applies in relation to that ship when in an area and on a voyage covered by such a system.

Offences and penalties
     4.  - (1) Any contravention of regulation 3 shall be an offence by the owner, the master and any other person for the time being responsible for the conduct of the ship, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine or both.

    (2) It shall be a defence to a charge under these Regulations to show that there were compelling reasons not to use a particular adopted mandatory ships' routeing system, and that such reasons were recorded in the ship's log at the time.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport


Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Transport

21st May 1997

[2] Cmnd 7874; Regulation V/8 was substituted in the Convention by Resolution MSC 46(65) adopted on 16th May 1995. back