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The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel etc.) (INF Code) Regulations 2000

UK Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 3216 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
7 December 2000
In force from
1 January 2001
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under
Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations implement amendments to Chapter VII (Carriage of Dangerous Goods) of the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea 1974, as amended (SOLAS) adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization on 27 May 1999 at its 71st session by Resolution MSC 87(71). The purpose of these amendments is to give effect to the International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on Board Ships (“the INF Code”), which was adopted at the same session of the Maritime Safety Committee by Resolution 88(71). The text of the Code appears as an Annex to that Resolution. The Regulations apply from 1 January 2001 to all ships, regardless of size, engaged in the carriage of packaged irradiated nuclear fuel, plutonium and high-level radioactive wastes. Ships are required to hold a valid International Certificate of Fitness, which is issued in relation to United Kingdom ships by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on behalf of the Secretary of State, certifying that they have been constructed to certain standards including such matters as strength and stability, fire protection, cargo securement and temperature control, and integrity of power supplies. The INF Code and the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974 (SOLAS), its Protocol and amendments thereto may be obtained from the International Maritime Organization (IMO), 4 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SR (telephone 020-7735 7611). Merchant Shipping Notices can be obtained from iForce Marketing Support Services, Unit B, Imber Court Trading Estate, Orchard Lane, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 0BN (telephone 020-8957 5028). A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been carried out and a copy placed in the library of both Houses of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Maritime Information Centre, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1EG (telephone 02380-329295).

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