As far as reasonable and practicable, rescue boats other than those which are also lifeboats, must be launched each month with their rescue boat crews aboard and manoeuvred in the water. 

(1) The Company and master must facilitate the work of any person appointed as a "competent person", safety officer or safety representative in carrying out their health and safety functions, and in particular must provide for use by them a copy of the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen (where appropriate), and access to any necessary information, documents and similar material including relevant legislation and M Notices. 

No. The SCOPIC Clause was designed for the owners of the salving vessel to invoke, not the master. The salving vessel owners can invoke it at any time after the master has agreed the basic LOF terms, once they are contracted.

(1) Particulars of ship (name; distinctive number or letters (call sign); port of registry; 

Surveys and certification for: Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificates (except as indicated in the next answer);

Yes, if she is of 500 GT or more and was built on or after 1 September 1984. The MCA recommends in MGN 282 that all OSVs operating on the UK Continental Shelf obtain a DG DOC, regardless of size or date of build.

(1) A person employed in a ship solely in connection with the construction, alteration, repair or testing of the ship, its machinery or equipment, and not engaged in the navigation of the ship; 

Yes. The flag State Administration may exempt a cargo ship from having a VDR if the ship will be permanently taken out of service within 2 years of the specified date for fitting. (SOLAS reg. V/20. 2.3)

A bill of lading which bears no remark altering the printed statement "Shipped in apparent good order and condition.... ". 

To verify the completeness, adequacy and effective functioning of the Safety Management System (SMS).

No. 

A ship which has reached the required place (i. e. port or berth) under the terms of the charter party, and is fully at charterers' disposal. (The charter party may allow her to become an arrived ship even though she is not in the port, in the berth, in free pratique, or customs-cleared.)

The MCA's model ship security plan has been designed to keep those parts that could be inspected by an officer duly authorized by a foreign government separate from those parts that require the permission for inspection of the UK Government or the master.

(1) Leadership and the commitment of the chief executive; 

The inflation, in port, of one of the ship's liferafts.