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Brokers and boat retailers typically have responsibility for ensuring that the legal framework surrounding the sale and purchase of small craft is fit for purpose and for conducting the transaction successfully within this framework.  British Marine offers training and tools to help you achieve better results around the legalities of selling a boat.  We can recommend these two training courses: The Law Relating to Brokerage and Boat Retailers Senior Brokers The Boat Sal ...

British Marine Training Grants are available for British Marine members for training undertaken.  The grants are available on a first come, first serve basis.  Rules apply, depending on the size of your company. If you are taking on an Apprentice, the Shipwrights Apprenticeship Scheme is now available and offers advice, funding and assistance in hiring and training young people.  Please get in touch with Andy Levene, the Shipwright Apprenticeship Scheme Administrat ...

British Marine provides a range of training services for the marina sector: Marina Operatives Course, which is a modular programme which enables staff to train in all areas of the business, whilst on the job. Intermediate Marina Managers Course - this course is aimed at people with at least one year's experience at management/supervisory level in a marina Advanced Marina Management School - this course is aimed at people with at least three years experience at management/ ...

If you are thinking of taking an Apprentice, help is at hand.  There is information on the British Marine website, which is a good starting place. The Shipwright Apprentice Scheme is helping small to medium enterprises in the marine industry employ and train apprentices.  Through their Ark Appeal the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights have secured funding from the Lloyds Register Foundation to help smaller businesses in the marine sector by underwriting the first year wages of a f ...

Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credits are an extremely beneficial tax relief available to UK businesses seeking to improve their products or production processes through an advance in science or technology. A common misconception is that the relief is targeted at ‘men in lab coats’, whereas in practice, the relief is much broader, and we have advised businesses of all shapes and sizes in successfully claiming R&D tax relief. There are two R&D regimes – one for ...

Overview The main provisions for the control of air pollution are set out in: Environmental Protection Act 1990 Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes & Substances) Regulations 1991 Clean Air Act 1993 Environment Act 1995 Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 It is an offence to operate a prescribed process, such as the polymerisation of styrene in certain quantities, without a relevant authorisation or without regard to the conditions att ...

Overview The Earth's climate is changing. Rising global temperatures will bring changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather. We need to avoid making the problem worse, so cutting carbon emissions is a priority. But all of us - individuals, businesses, Government and public authorities - will also need to adapt our behaviour to respond to the challenges of climate change. Mitigation Mitigation measures of climate change can include impr ...

Overview The construction and maintenance of infrastructure to support the recreational boating sector is regulated by many different organisations. Understanding the permissions required to enable development and activities to take place can be complicated with the information needed scattered between many different consenting authorities. Marine Consents This section outlines which consents are needed for which activities and provides a summary of each type of consent. More detail can be foun ...

The Valuation Office Agency have now published guidance on council tax applicable to moorings in marina facilities. The full updated guidance can be found here. Where a marina with berths contains both moored pleasure boats and boats whose occupants use them as sole or main residences the outcome may on the facts be either a composite hereditament, a combination of composite hereditament and separate domestic hereditaments or indeed separate domestic hereditaments leading to ...

CRoW applies to England and Wales only and introduced duties on the conservation agencies to conserve and enhance SSSIs. It provides for public access on foot to certain types of land, including mountain, moor, heath, down, and registered common land, and contains provisions for extending this right to coastal land.  The Act amends the law relating to public rights of way, increases protection for Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), strengthens wildlife enforcement legislation, an ...