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