The Armed Forces (Specified Aviation and Marine Functions) Regulations 2018

Specified marine functions: duties relating to ships

5.—(1) A duty of a person subject to service law is specified as a marine function for the purposes of section 93A(3A) and (3B) of the Armed Forces Act 2006 if it is any duty—

(a) of an officer of one of Her Majesty’s ships afloat to secure the safe conduct of the ship;

(b) of the quartermaster, bosun’s mate, helmsman or planesman of one of Her Majesty’s ships afloat to execute, or secure the execution of, orders as to the navigation of the ship;

(c) of a member of the crew of any of the following which belongs to, or is being used for the purpose of, any of Her Majesty’s forces—

(i) a hovercraft;

(ii) a landing craft;

(iii) a rigid-hulled inflatable boat;

(iv) a raiding craft;

(v) any other vessel, if it belongs to one of Her Majesty’s ships afloat;

(d) as the ship control officer of the watch of one of Her Majesty’s submarines afloat;

(e) as a member of the standing sea emergency party of one of Her Majesty’s ships afloat;

(f) as a member of the harbour duty watch of one of Her Majesty’s ships;

(g) as a member of the strategic weapons system harbour duty watch of one of Her Majesty’s submarines;

(h) to supervise a hazardous seamanship evolution;

(i) to supervise a maritime lifting operation;

(j) as a member of a boarding party;

(k) as a diver;

(l) to supervise a diver;

(m) of a person in relation to the handling or use on a ship, or the operation on or from it, of a depth-charge launcher, firearm, mortar, rocket or torpedo;

(n) of a person handling, or supervising the handling of, explosives being loaded onto, carried on or in, or unloaded from a ship;

(o) of an operator of an unmanned maritime system (surface or subsurface) under way;

(p) to ensure any part of the following activities is carried out safely—

(i) fuelling, or removing fuel from, a ship;

(ii) loading cargo into a ship (including securing that cargo) or unloading cargo from a ship; or

(iii) the maintenance of a ship.

(2) In this regulation—

“afloat” means not on shore;

“hazardous seamanship evolution” means manoeuvring alongside another vessel or fixed or moving object, leaving harbour, launching or recovery of boats, replenishment at sea, towing operations or salvage operations;

“Her Majesty’s submarines” means all of Her Majesty’s ships which are submarines;

“maritime lifting operation” means the lifting or lowering of a load between one of Her Majesty’s ships and the shore using lifting equipment; and

“unmanned maritime system (surface or subsurface)” means any remotely controlled ship that can be operated on or below the surface of the sea or navigable waters.