Procedures regarding the Safety Radio (SR) survey of Japanese flag ships were announced in ClassNK Technical Information No.TEC-0940 dated 25 December 2012.
This Technical Information provides the revised information and supersedes the previous ClassNK Technical Information No.TEC-0940.

Revision of a part of the Ship Safety Act (Article 8) was promulgated on 12 September 2012 and effective on 1 January 2013. The Classification Societies, including ClassNK carry out SR Survey and issue SR Certificate of Japanese flag ships since 1 January 2013 on behalf of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (hereinafter "the Maritime Authority").
We inform ClassNK's procedures of SR Survey and the Issuance of SR Certificate as follows.

1. Implementation of SR Survey for Japanese flag ships.
Please submit the Application for Inspection along with the following documents directly to the ClassNK service site in charge.
(1) "Notification of Inspection results of Ship Station and Ship Earth Station" issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications or "Report of the Inspection Results of Ship Station and Ship Earth Station" issued by the Registered Inspector approved by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
(Please note that the Notification/Report is effective only within three months from the issue date. However, as Notification/Report more than three months may be accepted in consideration of her voyage to be able to apply SR survey before completion of Radio inspection prescribed in the Radio Act, please contact the service site in charge beforehand on this occasion.)
(2) Others
In case where applying along with the aforementioned “Report of the Inspection Results of Ship Station and Ship Earth Station”, if “Notification of the Omission of Radio Station Inspection” is issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, please submit a copy of the said Notification together to us.

(To be continued)