The main groups are:

The person operating the scheduled service must: (1) maintain an up-to-date list of ships on the service; (2) send the list, with updates, to the MCA; and (3) ensure that, for each voyage made by a ship on the scheduled service, the information listed in MSN 1831 Annex A is kept so that it can be provided electronically to the MCA at any time, immediately on request.

(1) Common carriers; and (2) private carriers.

In some countries, yes. (See, for example, Decision No. 41/2005/QD-BGTVT Of September 16, 2005, Providing For Order And Procedures For Certifying The Submission Of Sea Protests In Vietnam, and Article 104 of the Merchant Shipping Act of Malta. ) It is not a statutory duty in the UK, however. A master should always ask the P&I club correspondent or ship's agent whether he is under a local legal duty to make a protest.

A ship which is reasonably fit to encounter the ordinary perils of the sea on the intended voyage.

Personal protective equipment must be used when risks cannot be avoided or reduced to an acceptable level.

As "any operation in connection with the holding, pushing, pulling, moving, escorting or guiding of or standing by the Hirer's vessel".

Safety Responsibilities/Shipboard Management Chapter 1: Risk assessment; Chapter 2: Health surveillance; Chapter 3: Safety officials; Chapter 4: Personal protective equipment; Chapter 5: Safety signs; Chapter 6: Means of access and safe movement; Chapter 7: Provision and care of work equipment.

(1) The International Code of Signals;

A document of authorisation for the carriage of grain, in accordance with SOLAS regulation VI/9 and section 3 of the International Grain Code. It may accompany or be incorporated into the Grain Loading Manual provided to enable the master to meet the stability requirements of the Code.

Yes. 

MGN 400.

Yes. 

In general, keep well clear of all oil and gas installations. 

The master of a ship will be released from the obligation under SOLAS regulation V/33.1 to proceed to assist and, if his ship has been requisitioned, from the obligation under SOLAS regulation V/33.2 to comply with the requisition, on being informed by the persons in distress or the SAR service or by the master of another ship which has reached the persons in distress that assistance is no longer necessary. (An entry should be made in the Official Log Book of any such information. )