New Marine Order 52 for yachts and training vessels effective from 1 January 2023 - SAFETY4SEA - Safety4Sea

AMSA informs that from 1 January 2023, Marine Order 52 (Yachts and grooming vessels) 2022 volition travel into effect. Marine Order 52 (MO52) establishes survey, attraction and certification requirements for regulated Australian vessels (RAVs) that are yachts oregon grooming vessels.

The caller MO52 incorporates the Red Ensign Group (REG) Yacht Code Part A and the accompanying Australian National Annex. The REG Yacht Code Part A updates the REG Large Yacht Code (known arsenic the LY3 Code) and:

• further develops the well-established manufacture standards of the LY3 Code
• adopts much from manufacture champion signifier and provides much flexibility and innovation successful yacht plan and construction
• provides equivalence arrangements for ample yachts, nether the provisions of the International Convention connected Load Lines 1966, the International Convention connected Safety of Life astatine Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention connected Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers 1978 (STCW), and
• applies to yachts designed and constructed aft 1 January 2019.

The LY3 Code and the accompanying LY3 Code Australian National Annex volition proceed to use to vessels designed and constructed nether the LY3 Code anterior to 1 January 2019.

Yachts, including ample yachts, and grooming vessels volition inactive person to comply with each planetary conventions not altered by the marine order, related to that vessel’s size and operations.

Marine Order 52 does not use to home commercialized vessels (DCVs) oregon recreational vessels.