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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

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Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Charts and Nautical Publications) Regulations, 2002

Annex (Regulations 6)

Nautical Publications

 

NAUTICAL PUBLICATIONS

 

1. Table of Life-Saving Signals, published by the International Maritime Organization.

 

2. The Merchant Ship Search and Rescue (MERSAR) Manual, published by the International Maritime Organization, where the ship is a foreign-going ship, a coasting ship, or a fishing vessel making a voyage outside waters under South African jurisdiction.

 

3. Where the ship is required to be fitted with radio equipment and is a foreign-going ship, a coasting ship, or a fishing vessel making a voyage outside waters under South African jurisdiction, the following publications, published by the International Maritime Organization:
(a) the International Code of Signals; and
(b) the Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary.

 

4.
(a) Those parts of the following publications that are relevant to the area to be navigated by the ship and to its operation:
(i) marine notices, published by the South African Maritime Safety Authority;
(ii) notices to mariners, published by the Hydrographer of the Navy;
(iii) nautical almanac;
(iv) navigation tables; and
(v) operating and maintenance instructions for navigational aids carried by the ship.
(b) The publications, or relevant parts of publications, referred to in paragraph (a)(iii) and (iv) need not be carried on fishing vessels that, on any voyage, do not proceed outside waters under South African jurisdiction.