Singapore legislation
Regulation 21
of Transport Safety Investigations (Marine Occurrences) Regulations 2023
Regulation 21
Draft Final Report and Final Report
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of section 19(1) of the Act, the Director must, as soon as possible after the completion of an investigation under the Act into a marine casualty or marine incident, send a copy of the draft Final Report to each of the following persons, inviting their significant and substantiated comments:
the appropriate foreign authority of every State that participated in the investigation;
every interested party with respect to the outcome of the investigation;
any other person whom the Director considers appropriate.
Subregulation 2
If any comments on the draft Final Report are received by the Director before the applicable deadline, the Director must consider those comments, and either —
amend the draft Final Report to include the substance of the comments received; or
notify the relevant State, interested party or other person that the Director does not accept or rejects those comments before finalising the contents of the Final Report.
Subregulation 3
If no comments on the draft Final Report are received by the Director before the applicable deadline, the Director must issue and send out the Final Report to the States referred to in paragraph (1), the interested parties and other persons concerned.
Subregulation 4
In paragraphs (2) and (3), the applicable deadline for any draft Final Report sent to a State, interested party or other person under paragraph (1) is —
the 30th day after the date on which the draft Final Report was sent out to the State, interested party or other person, as the case may be; or
the end of any other time that has been agreed upon with the State, interested party or other person to whom the draft Final Report was sent.