The Merchant Shipping (Classification Society) Regulations, Government Notice no. 141 of 2017
Made 2017-06-19 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- Language
- English
- Kind
- Regulation
- Organisation
- European Union
- Country
- Mauritius
- Subjects
- Environment, Sea
- Keywords
- protection of environment, classification/declassification, environmental standards, inspection, institution, contracts, standards, governance
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604 Government Notices 2017 Government Notice No. 141 of 2017 THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT Regulations made by the Minister under section 228 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1. These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Classification Society) Regulations 2017. 2. In these regulations – “Act” means the Merchant Shipping Act; “Memorandum of Agreement” means an agreement entered by the Ministry with a Classification Society to carry out, in accordance with an international Convention, surveys and inspections on Mauritius ships. 3. For the purpose of section 2 of the Act, every Classification Society which is recognised by the Government of the Republic of Mauritius shall be listed in the Schedule. 4. (1) Subject to paragraph (1), every Mauritius ship shall comply with the rules relating to design, construction and maintenance of a Classification Society. (2) The Director may, in relation to a Mauritius ship, impose a Mauritius ship requirements in addition to or different from the rules of a Classification Society, subject that those requirements are not lower than the safety and environmental protection standards applicable to the ship under the rules of that Classification Society. 5. The Director may add to or remove from the list of Classification Societies any Classification Society for the purposes of giving effect to any requirement of a Safety Government Notices 2017 605 Convention or any other Convention to which Mauritius is party to, or on signature of a Memorandum of Agreement with a Classification Society. 6. These regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 2017. Made by the Minister on 19 June 2017. SCHEDULE [Regulation 3] LIST OF CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES American Bureau of Shipping Bureau Veritas China Classification Society Det Norske Veritas - Germanischer Lloyd Hellenic Register of Shipping Indian Register of Shipping Korean Register of Shipping Lloyds Register of Shipping Nippon Keiji Kyokai Registro Italiano Navale