1969 Ed.] Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Regulations.
[CAP. 281
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MERCHANT SHIPPING (FIRE APPLIANCES) REGULATIONS.
(Cap. 281, sections 38, 99 and 105).
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 64/69.
[16th June, 1969.]
L.N. 79/69.
PART I.
PRELIMINARY.
1. These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Regulations.
Citation.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
Interpretation.
"accommodation space" means passenger spaces, corridors, lavatories, cabins, offices, crew spaces, isolated pantries and lockers and similar spaces;
"approved" means approved by the Director of Marine or by any person authorized by him;
"cargo space" means spaces appropriated for cargo, other than mail and bullion, and trunks leading to such spaces;
"control station" includes those spaces in which radio, main navigating or central fire-recording equipment or the emergency generator is located;
"crew space" means crew accommodation within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1948;
"length", in relation to a registered ship, means registered length within the meaning of subsection (6) of section 32 of the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Act 1967, and in relation to an unregistered ship means the length from the fore part of the stem to the aft side of the head of the stern post or, if no stern post is fitted to take the rudder, to the fore side of the rudder stock at the point where the rudder passes out of the hull;
"Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules" means the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Rules 1965, made by the Board of Trade and in operation from time to time in the United Kingdom;
"Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) Rules" means the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) Rules 1965, made by the Board of Trade and in operation from time to time in the United Kingdom;
"oil-fired boiler" means any boiler wholly or partly fired by liquid fuel not being a domestic boiler of less than 25,000 B.T.U. per hour;
(11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 44.)
(1967 c. 27.)
(S.I. 1965/1067.)
(S.I. 1965/1103.)