Singapore legislation
Regulation 23
of Transport Safety Investigations (Marine Occurrences) Regulations 2023
Regulation 23
Safety recommendations
Subregulation 1
The Director may, at any stage of an investigation under the Act into a marine casualty or marine incident, give to the persons mentioned in paragraph (2) a duly dated safety recommendation in writing, containing any preventive action that the Director considers necessary to be taken promptly to enhance marine safety.
Subregulation 2
The persons to whom a safety recommendation under paragraph (1) may be given are as follows:
the respective appropriate foreign authorities of the other States that participated in the investigation;
the interested parties with respect to the outcome of the investigation.
Subregulation 3
The Director must cause any safety recommendation in a report mentioned in section 22(1)(a) of the Act to be communicated to those persons in Singapore who, in the opinion of the Director, are most fitted to implement the safety recommendation, which may be a person, an unincorporated association, or a public authority or public officer.
Subregulation 4
For the purposes of section 22(2) of the Act, any person in Singapore to whom a safety recommendation is communicated under paragraph (3) must —
within 90 days after receiving the safety recommendation —
take that safety recommendation into consideration and, where appropriate, act upon it; and
send to the Director —
full details of the measures (if any) that the person has taken or proposes to take to implement the safety recommendation and, if such measures are to be implemented, the timetable for securing that implementation; or (B)a full explanation as to why no measures will be taken to implement the safety recommendation; and
give notice to the Director if at any time any information provided to the Director in accordance with sub‑paragraph (a)(ii) concerning the measures the person proposes to take or the timetable for securing the implementation of the safety recommendation is rendered inaccurate by any change of circumstances.