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<p>The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) carry out a maximum four year cycle of
audits of the Overseas Territory (OT)/Crown Dependency (CD) Administrations, the scope
of which is covered in the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the UK
Government and the individual Government of the OTs and CDs for the operation of their
British shipping register. The MOU contains an obligation to ensure that all vessels
registered, that are subject to safe manning criteria, are properly crewed and certificated
to International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) standards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The
MCA surveyors also carry out targeted inspections of Red Ensign Group (REG) ships
visiting UK ports under the Merchant Shipping Act. If examples of a failure to comply
are identified, the MCA has at its disposal the same control measures as for Port
State Control, i.e. detention, prohibition notices, improvement notices and defect
rectification. Findings of these inspections are fed back to the MCA to follow-up
with the relevant REG administration.</p><p> </p>
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