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Is a Boat Safety Scheme Certificate sufficient?

April 26, 2017boat Certificate safety Scheme sufficient

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Is a Boat Safety Scheme Certificate sufficient?

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If the certificate was correctly issued prior to 1st April 2005 then in general terms where the BSS regulations cover the same areas of the craft as the RCD then the requirements of the RCD were less stringent than those of the BSS. However with the new look BSS (post 1st April 2005) then many of the BSS requirements fall far below the statutory requirements of the RCD. In addition BSS examiners and participating surveyors are not permitted to issue a BSS certificate to any craft which is not CE marked but which it is intended will become so in the future.