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Merchant Shipping (Special Limits Passenger Ships) Safety Regulations

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Merchant Shipping (Special Limits Passenger Ships) Safety Regulations

Table of Contents

Part I GENERAL PROVISIONS

1 Citation

2 Definitions

3 Application

4 Prohibition

5 Exemption

6 Standards

Part II SURVEYS AND CERTIFICATES

7 Application for survey

8 Initial and subsequent surveys

9 Maintenance of conditions after survey

10 Issue of certificates

11 Duration of certificates

12 Form of certificates

13 Posting up of certificates

13A Penalty

Part III PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION

14 General

15 Spaces not for passenger accommodation

16 Ventilation

17 Lighting

18 Doors, stairways, aisles and sitting arrangement

19 Water closets and washing places

Part IV CONSTRUCTION

20 Propulsion of ship

21 Structural strength

22 Stability information

23 Freeboard

24 Application of regulations 25 to 37

25 Ship carrying more than 150 passengers

26 Definitions

27 Floodable length

28 Permeability

29 Permissible length of compartments

30 Subdivision

31 Peak and machinery space bulkheads, shaft tunnels, etc.

32 Stability of ship in damaged condition

33 Construction of watertight bulkheads, etc.

34 Openings in watertight bulkheads

35 Openings in shell plating below margin line

36 Watertight integrity above margin line

37 Assigning, marking of subdivision load lines

38 Ship carrying not more than 150 passengers

39 Bilge pumping arrangement

40 Electrical equipment and installations

41 Fire protection

42 Machinery and boilers, etc.

43 Means of going astern

44 Steering gear

45 Oil fuel

46 Anchors, chain cables and windlass

47 Means of escape

48 Guard rails, stanchions and bulwarks

Part V SAFETY EQUIPMENT

49 Lifejackets for all ships

50 Life-saving appliances for port limit passenger ship

51 Life-saving appliances for 30 mile limit passenger ship

52 Fire-extinguishing appliances for ship 24 metres or more in length

53 Fire-extinguishing appliances for ship less than 24 metres in length

54 Means for stopping machinery and for shutting off oil fuel suction pipes

55 Radiotelegraph station

56 Hand flares

57 Instructions to passengers

58 Accident report

Part VI SAVINGS CLAUSE AND REGULATIONS WHICH CEASE TO APPLY

59 Savings

60 Safety Regulations do not apply

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Table of Contents

Merchant Shipping (Special Limits Passenger Ships) Safety Regulations
Part I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Part II SURVEYS AND CERTIFICATES

7 Application for survey

8 Initial and subsequent surveys

9 Maintenance of conditions after survey

10 Issue of certificates

11 Duration of certificates

12 Form of certificates

13 Posting up of certificates

Part III PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION

15 Spaces not for passenger accommodation

18 Doors, stairways, aisles and sitting arrangement

19 Water closets and washing places

Part IV CONSTRUCTION

20 Propulsion of ship

21 Structural strength

22 Stability information

24 Application of regulations 25 to 37

25 Ship carrying more than 150 passengers

27 Floodable length

28 Permeability

29 Permissible length of compartments

31 Peak and machinery space bulkheads, shaft tunnels, etc.

32 Stability of ship in damaged condition

33 Construction of watertight bulkheads, etc.

34 Openings in watertight bulkheads

35 Openings in shell plating below margin line

36 Watertight integrity above margin line

37 Assigning, marking of subdivision load lines

38 Ship carrying not more than 150 passengers

39 Bilge pumping arrangement

40 Electrical equipment and installations

41 Fire protection

42 Machinery and boilers, etc.

43 Means of going astern

44 Steering gear

46 Anchors, chain cables and windlass

47 Means of escape

48 Guard rails, stanchions and bulwarks

Part V SAFETY EQUIPMENT

49 Lifejackets for all ships

50 Life-saving appliances for port limit passenger ship

51 Life-saving appliances for 30 mile limit passenger ship

52 Fire-extinguishing appliances for ship 24 metres or more in length

53 Fire-extinguishing appliances for ship less than 24 metres in length

54 Means for stopping machinery and for shutting off oil fuel suction pipes

55 Radiotelegraph station

57 Instructions to passengers

58 Accident report

Part VI SAVINGS CLAUSE AND REGULATIONS WHICH CEASE TO APPLY

60 Safety Regulations do not apply

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Radiotelegraph station

55. A ship which proceeds beyond the port limit shall be fitted with a radiotelegraph station in accordance with Chapter IV of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Regulations [Rg. 11].

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