Maritime red tape challenge highlights need for regulations
Nearly 200 responses were submitted to the maritime section of the 'red tape' challenge Nearly 200 responses were submitted to the maritime section of the 'red tape' challenge website during the government's month-long online consultation.Nautilus International featured heavily among the responses in each of the five sections and was one of the largest comment tags (which measures key word repetition) for the duration of the consultation.The Department for Transport (DfT) will now analyse all the comments and present some key recommendations for merging, simplifying or removing any legislation to the government.This may be a difficult task as the responses were over-whelming in favour of retaining all existing legalisation in order to preserve the safety of life as sea, as one respondent commented: 'I don't believe lawmakers create legislation and regulations just to fill up their lonely days. Rather, someone's behaviour was so abhorrent that it became necessary to create a regulation against that practice.The section relating to industry safety generated more than 100 responses alone, with the Pilotage Act featuring heavily.'The 1987 Pilotage Act is the statutory backbone to our profession, I do not want to see it diluted. We need to keep standards high for both Pilots and PEC ...
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