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Tanker Lightening Operations

37. Powers are required to enable the transfer of crude oil

and chemicals from large to small tankers in sheltered waters

around the UK coast to be regulated. No serious accidents or

pollution has yet occurred because of these operations, which

are necessary to allow consignments to be brought into certain

UK ports, but such a risk clearly exists and was identified by

the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Further

consultations will be held with interested parties before the

regulations are drafted.

Dynamically Supported Craft

38.

The operation of hydrofoils and some other dynamically

supported craft is not subject to regulation in the way that

hovercraft are under the Hovercraft Act 1968. A power is needed

to make such regulations, based on the International Maritime

Organisation's code of Safety on Dynamically Supported Craft.

Further consultations will be held with interested parties before

regulations are drafted.

Delegation of Survey Work to Outside Organisations

39. A general power is required to delegate survey work

Specific

to classification societies and other organisations.

powers already exist in respect of certain work but a general

power will enable a wider range of work to be delegated where

appropriate.

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