Consultation outcome

Consultation on merchant shipping (counting and registration of persons on board passenger ships) (amendment) regulations 2020

• From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
• Published: 15 October 2020
• Last updated: 17 February 2021 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

The Merchant Shipping (safety standards for passenger ships on domestic voyages) (miscellaneous amendments) Regulations 2020: Consultation outcome report

PDF, 137 KB, 6 pages

Detail of outcome

The final outcome includes a summary of consultee questions and government responses to them.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks your views on a new Statutory Instrument (SI) which is required to amend the existing Regulations (The Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999) (“SI 1999/1869”).

This consultation ran from
8am on 15 October 2020 to 11:45pm on 12 November 2020

Consultation description

The most notable change introduced by the amended regulations is that from 20 December 2023, passenger numbers are to be reported to the National Single Window (NSW) or, alternatively, via the ship’s Automatic Identification System (AIS). In regards to personal passenger details such as forenames, date of birth and gender, these will need to be reported in the NSW.

The Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 will provide a more efficient and uniform method of collecting and reporting passenger information digitally. Introducing these amendments to previous regulations also provides a significant safety enhancement to current UK regulatory practices as information will be made available more rapidly via a centralised system to search and rescue authorities if there is an incident on, or involving a ship. By developing further our digital framework, this will reduce the delay in HM Coastguard response times thereby lowering the risk of lives at sea.

Documents

Annex A - draft SI

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Annex B - Passenger counting DMA

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Annex C - MSN to supersede MSN 1794

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Annex E - Consultation document

PDF, 409 KB, 18 pages

Published 15 October 2020
Last updated 17 February 2021 + show all updates

1. 17 February 2021

   Consultation outcome report uploaded.

2. 29 October 2020

   Updated version of Annex E uploaded.

3. 15 October 2020

   First published.