PART 2Requirements for Equipment

Requirements for equipment5

1

Subject to paragraph (2), where under international instruments equipment must be approved by the flag state administration, that equipment must comply with applicable international standards when it is placed on board a ship.

2

When equipment is placed on board a domestic passenger ship or a fishing vessel and that equipment is listed in Annex 1 or 2 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 F2Amendment 3 it must comply with—

a

applicable international standards;

b

an alternative standard; or

c

(where there is no requirement to place that equipment on board a ship but it is placed on board voluntarily) the standard specified by the Secretary of State.

3

When equipment listed in Annex 3 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 F3Amendment 3 is placed on board a ship it must comply with applicable UK standards.

F44

Equipment listed in Annex 1 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 Amendment 3 must be taken to comply with applicable international standards where it is—

a

approved by an approved body, accompanied by—

i

a declaration of United Kingdom conformity under regulation 14; and

ii

affixed with a conformity mark under regulation 15;

b

approved by an EU notified body, accompanied by an EU declaration of conformity and affixed with an EU conformity mark; or

c

approved by a recognised third country F7other than the United States of America and accompanied by such declarations and marks of conformity (if any) as the Secretary of State may specify.

F14A

Equipment listed in Annex 6 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 Amendment 3 must be taken to comply with applicable international standards where it is—

a

approved by the United States Coast Guard;

b

accompanied by a US declaration of conformity; and

c

affixed with the United Kingdom conformity mark.

4B

Paragraph (4A) does not apply to any equipment in respect of which approval has been suspended in accordance with Article 15 of the Agreement.

5

Equipment listed in F5Annex 2 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 Amendment 3 must be taken to comply with applicable international standards or an alternative standard where it is accompanied by a certificate under regulation 18.

6

In this regulation—

“alternative standard” means a standard specified as an alternative to an applicable international standard in any instrument listed F6Annex 4 of Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1874 Amendment 3.