Merchant Shipping (Radio) Rules, 1967.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 27
paragraphs: —(1) A radiotelephone log-book in the form specified in the Tenth Schedule to these Rules shall be kept at the place where radio watch is maintained in every radiotelephone ship and shall be available for inspection by any person authorised in that behalf by the Minister or the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
(2) Every radiotelephone operator shall, when keeping radio watch in compliance with Rule 25(1) enter in such log-book the following:
(a) his name;
(b) the times at which he begins and ends his periods of radio watch;
(c) the time at which radio watch is for any reason discontinued, together with the reason and the time at which radio watch is resumed;
(d) a summary of communications exchanged between the ship station and coast stations or other ship stations;
(e) a record of all incidents occurring during his period of radio watch which relate to the radiotelephone installation and the operation thereof and which appear to him to be of importance to the safety of life at sea; in particular, he shall make the following entries:—
(i) the general sense of all messages transmitted by him and received by him which relate to immediate assistance required by persons in distress at or above the sea;
(ii) the general sense of all messages transmitted by him and received by him which are preceded by a signal in general international use as an urgency signal or a safety signal;
(iii) a record of the radio watch maintained by him during each of the silence periods;
(iv) a record of any incident occurring during his period of radio watch which affects the efficiency of the radiotelephone installation; and
(v) if the ship's rules permit, a record in latitude and longitude, or by reference to a place, of the approximate position of the ship at least once per day when the station is open.
(3) Every radiotelephone operator shall enter in such log-book a record of the tests conducted in accordance with Rules 26(2) and 30(3).
(4) The master and every officer or member of the crew shall, when keeping radio watch in compliance with Rule 25(1), enter in such log-book the following:
(a) his name;
(b) the times at which he begins and ends his periods of radio watch;
(c) the time at which radio watch is for any reason discontinued, together with the reason, and the time radio watch is resumed;
(d) a record of all incidents occurring during his period of watch which relate to the radiotelephone installation and the operation thereof and which appear to him to be of importance to the safety of life at sea, and in particular, he shall make the following entries—
(i) the general sense of all messages received by him which relate to immediate assistance required by persons in distress at or above the sea,
(ii) the general sense of all messages received by him which are preceded by a signal in general international use as an urgency signal or a safety signal,
(iii) a record of any incident occurring during his period of radio watch which affects the efficiency of the radiotelephone installation, and
(iv) if the ship's rules permit, a record in latitude and longitude, or by reference to a place of the approximate position of the ship at least once per day when the station is open.
(5) The radiotelephone operator or, if there is more than one, one designated by the master, shall inspect and sign each day the entries for that day in such log-book.
(6) The master of the ship shall inspect and sign each day's entries in such log-book.
(7) Section 242 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (which provides for the delivery of the official log-book to the Superintendent) and Section 256 of that Act (which provides among other things for the custody of the official log-book) shall apply to the radiotelephone log-book as they apply to the official log-book.