workboat brown code
The impact assessment for editon 2 and a final draft of edition 2 have been added to this page prior to full publication of edition 2 of the workboat code. published 11 june 2014 last updated 21. Workboats and pilot boats – a code of practice” introduced in 1998, and applies to small workboats and pilot boats, the keels of which are laid, or are at a similar stage of construction, on or after [1 january 2015]. this is defined in the merchant shipping notice issued in accordance with the regulation 3(1) of the enabling. After the workboat [brown] code had been applied voluntarily to a proportion of the registered fleet with successful results, the code was made mandatory compliance in 1998. in 2004 under the brown code a new marine guidance notice (mgn 280) was created. mgn 280 was a sub-chapter of the brown code, it did not have its own legal footing. 
workboat brown code For new vessels, this code replaces; the safety of small workboats and pilot boats – a code of practice (the “brown code”), and its equivalent standard published in the technical annex to marine guidance note mgn 280 (m), which in this respect “new vessel” means:. 1.2 the code is an acceptable code of practice for application to vessels in accordance with the merchant shipping (small workboats and pilot boats) regulations 1998, as an equivalent to the merchant shipping legislation which applies to them. in the case of united kingdom pilot boats, the code applies to them. there is no.
