MGN 280 (M)
MARINE GUIDANCE NOTE
MGN 280 (M)
Small Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure, Workboats and Pilot Boats ? Alternative Construction Standards
Notice to all Owners & Operators of Small Commercial Code Vessels; Boat Builders, Designers and Surveyors This notice should be read in conjunction with the Blue, Yellow, Brown and Red Codes
Summary
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency in co-operation with members of the Small Vessel Codes Working Group has been engaged in a harmonisation and rationalisation exercise of the existing small vessel codes:
? The Safety of Small Commercial Motor Vessels - A Code of Practice ? The Safety of Small Commercial Sailing Vessels - A Code of Practice ? The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Workboats & Pilot Boats ? The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure
Operating from a Nominated Departure Point (NDP)
The outcome of this exercise is that the Small Commercial Vessel and Pilot Boat (SCV) Code will come into force.
This guidance note, in its electronic version, contains the SCV Code text as an annex and advises how the standards of the SCV Code may be used in the context of vessels already coded or in the process of coding to the existing Codes
Introduction
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency
and its predecessors have, over the last
10 years, developed and implemented a
number of codes of practice to address a
family of small1 commercial vessel types.
1 Being under 24 metres Load Line Length 2 ISBN 0-11-551185-7 3 ISBN 0-11-551184-9 4 ISBN 0-11-552006-6
These existing Codes are:
? The Safety of Small Commercial Motor Vessels - A Code of Practice2
? The Safety of Small Commercial Sailing Vessels - A Code of Practice3
? The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Workboats & Pilot Boats4
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? The Code of Practice for the Safety of 8
Where the SCV Code standards are used
Small Vessels in Commercial Use for
for such vessels, these will continue to be
Sport or Pleasure Operating from a
issued with Certification under the existing
Nominated Departure Point (NDP)5
Codes. Certification under the SCV Code
will only be appropriate for vessels
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The Codes were published and
constructed after the coming into force of
promulgated as being representative of
what will be the Merchant Shipping
industry best practice in the appropriate
(SmallCommercial Vessel and Pilot Boats)
industry sector
Regulations 20048.
The Small Commercial Vessel and Pilot 9
From the time that these proposed
Boat (SCV) Code
Regulations come into force it will be
appropriate that such vessels be issued
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As part of a rolling review, the Agency
with new code certification on the
and other stakeholders in these codes
renewal of the current certification,
have undertaken a harmonisation and
nominally five years after the issue of the
rationalisation exercise which is nearing
current certification.
completion and the SCV Code text has now
been approved by the Small Vessel Codes 10
The text of the SCV Code is attached to the
Steering Group for use. All that remains
electronic form of this notice as an Annex,
to be completed is to bring revised
or a printed version is available on request
regulations into force.
from the Code Vessel Safety Branch.
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The SCV Code text can be accessed at
ld/section03/mgn280.pdf
For those without access to the Internet, a printed copy is available on request from the Code Vessel Safety Branch.
Further Information
Further information on the contents of this Notice can be obtained from the address at the end of this Notice.
Alternative Standards for Vessels Coded to Existing Small Vessel Codes
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The purpose of this Note is to make
those with an interest in small vessels in
commercial use aware that the SCV Code
Standards are, from the date of publication
of this Note, available for use in the context
of vessels already coded or in the process of
coding, to the existing Codes.
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This provision is enabled by regulation 6 of
Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial
Use for Sport and Pleasure) Regulation
19986, for non workboats and pilot boats;
and regulation 8 of Merchant Shipping
(Small Workboats and Pilot Boats)
Regulation 19987, for workboats and
pilot boats.
5 ISBN 0-11-551812-6 6 SI 1998 No:2771 7 SI 1998 No:1609 8 It is hoped that these Regulations will made in 2004 otherwise the year reference will be 2005.
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Code Vessel Safety Branch Maritime and Coastguard Agency Bay 2/05 Spring Place 105 Commercial Road SO15 1EG
Telephone: 023 8032 9131 Fax: 023 8032 9447 E-Mail: codes@.uk
General Enquiries: 24 Hour InfoLine infoline@.uk 0870 600 6505
MCA Website Address: Internet:
File Ref: MS 93/04/010, MS 3/01/001 and MS 93/04/024
Published: October/2004
? Crown Copyright 2004
Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas
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The MCA is an executive agency of the Department for Transport
ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MGN 280
Annex (Available in Electronic Form ONLY) See:
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ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MGN 280 THE SMALL COMMERCIAL VESSEL AND PILOT BOAT CODE OF PRACTICE
CONTENTS
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Foreword
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Definitions
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Application and Interpretation
3.1
Application
3.2
Areas of Operation
3.3
Certification
3.4
Sports Diving, Sea Angling and Other Water Based Recreational Activities
3.5
Water Based Activities
3.6
Interpretation
3.7
Certifying Authorities
3.7.2
Local Authorities appointed as Certifying Authorities
3.8
Updating of the Code
3.9
Vessels Operating in Protected Waters and/or a Restricted Service ?
Equivalent Safety Standards
3.10
Equivalent Standards
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Construction and Structural Strength
4.1
General Requirements
4.2
Structural Strength
4.2.1
General
4.2.2
Construction materials
4.3
Decks
4.3.1
Weather deck
4.3.2
Recesses
4.4
Watertight Bulkheads
4.5
Inflatable Boats
4.5.1
General
4.5.2
Construction materials
4.5.3
Testing
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Weathertight Integrity
5.1
Hatchways and Hatches
5.1.1
General requirements
5.1.2
Hatchways which are open at sea
5.2
Doorways and Companionways
5.2.1
Doorways located above the weather deck
5.2.2
Companion hatch openings
5.3
Skylights
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