Lag om ändring av av sjötrafiklagen | 543 — Finland law | Esheria

Lag om ändring av av sjötrafiklagen

The captain of a vessel must ensure the vessel has adequate charts and nautical publications when route planning is needed, and must ensure people on certain vessels wear life-saving gear when conditions require it.

Jurisdiction
Finland
Instrument
Act or statute
Citation
543
Version
Undated source snapshot
Language
sv
Updated
Official source
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Statute overview

About this statute

The captain of a vessel must ensure the vessel has adequate charts and nautical publications when route planning is needed, and must ensure people on certain vessels wear life-saving gear when conditions require it. Responsibility for organizing canal and movable-bridge use services is assigned to different actors depending on ownership, and the services must be provided equally and in line with good administration. This section defines who may supervise or direct maritime traffic and describes when police, border, customs, rescue authorities, or the Defence Forces can order someone to do it. A traffic supervisor may stop or interrupt a vessel’s movement in specified situations, and the vessel master must then stop the vessel. People travelling by vessel in canals or through movable bridges must follow required care and navigation procedures. Swimming in canals and at movable bridges is forbidden. Certain rescue, police, customs, border guard, and, where needed, defence vessels have priority access to a lock canal. Transport and Communications Agency may issue detailed rules on arrivals, procedures, vessel use, equipment, and vessel types in certain lock canals.

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