reg 25 Duty to carry documents
(1) A shipowner must ensure that a copy of Part 6 of these Regulations and Marine Guidance Note 479(M) are held on board the ship and are available to seafarers. (2) Unless the shipowner reasonably considers that all of the seafarers on board the ship understand English sufficiently to understand the documents referred to in paragraph (1), the duty in paragraph (1) includes the duty to hold on board the ship and make available to seafarers such translated versions of those documents as are sufficient to ensure that all of the seafarers on board the ship can understand at least one version. (3) A breach of paragraphs (1) or (2) is an offence by the shipowner. (4) In this regulation “ Marine Guidance Note 479(M) ” means the note described as such and issued by the MCA in July 2014.