Check that the charterers' bills incorporate (by the inclusion of a Clause Paramount) the terms of the Hague Rules or Hague-Visby Rules.

(1) An International Ballast Water Management Certificate; (2) a Ballast Water Management Plan; and (3) a Ballast Water Record Book.

Before being assigned to any shipboard duties, masters, chief mates and anyone with immediate responsibility for embarking and disembarking passengers must complete MCA-approved training in (1) Passenger Safety (as specified in Paragraph 4, STCW Code A-V/3), and (2) Crisis Management and Human Behaviour (as specified in Paragraph 5, STCW Code A-V/3).

(1) The ship must have on board a document of authorisation; 

(1) Floating platforms (drilling rigs, accommodation platforms, etc. ) not engaged in voyages to waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of a Contracting Government other than the UK; 

The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969, which is often referred to as the International Tonnage Convention, 1969.

Except when the ship is in distress, the owner and master must not permit a ship loaded with grain outside the UK to enter any UK port unless it was loaded in accordance with the International Grain Code.

An agent with authority to perform all of the principal's functions. Some ships' agents are general agents for one or more shipping companies.

Yes.

One or more "competent persons" must be appointed by the employer "in order to provide such protective and preventive services as are necessary to enable him to comply with the requirements of these Regulations" - in other words to promote shipboard health and safety.

Where any of the Regulations of SI 1996/75 is contravened, the owner, the master and any person for the time being responsible for the vessel's conduct (e. g. the OOW) will each be guilty of an offence punishable on conviction on indictment by a maximum 2 years' imprisonment and a fine; and on summary conviction, in the case of a breach of Rule 10(b)(i) (duty to proceed with traffic flow in TSS lanes) by a fine not exceeding £50, 000, and in any other case by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum (i. e. £5, 000). (Reg. 6(1))

Five years, subject to annual verification.

Clauses (ii) and (iii) respectively. In a BSF Agreement the appropriate Voyage and Notice clause (for either Unlimited Trading, Running Agreement (Unlimited Area) or Running Agreement (Near-Coastal Area) has to be selected and inserted in the space provided.

Yes. Every shipping company should have a drug and alcohol policy in which its limits are clearly stated.

A designation of seven classes (PC 1, PC 2, PC 3, PC 4, PC 5, PC 6 and PC 7) assigned by IACS under Unified Requirement UR I to ships (other than icebreakers) intended to operate in polar regions. In addition to structural and machinery requirements as for ice class ships, there are propeller design requirements.