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Merchant Shipping (Safety)
[1981 Ed.
Regulations for
life-saving and
fire-fighting
appliances.
99. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations with respect to all or any of the following matters--
(a) the number, description and mode of construction of the boats, life rafts, line-throwing appliances, life-jackets and lifebuoys to be carried by ships, according to the classes in which the ships are arranged;
(b) the equipment to be carried by any such boats and rafts and the methods to be provided to get the boats and other life-saving appliances into the water, including oil for use in stormy weather;
(c) the provision in ships of a proper supply of lights and smoke signals, inextinguishable in water and fitted for attachment to lifebuoys;
(d) the quantity, quality and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on board ships, either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life rafts, life-jackets and lifebuoys;
(e) the position and means of securing the boats, life rafts,
life-jackets, lifebuoys and buoyant apparatus;
(f) the marking of the boats, life rafts and buoyant apparatus so as to show their dimensions and the number of persons authorized to be carried on them;
(g) the manning of the lifeboats and the qualifications and
certificates of lifeboatmen;
(h) the provision to be made for mustering the persons on board and for embarking them in the boats, including provision for the lighting of, and the means of ingress to and egress from different parts of the ship;
(i) the provision of suitable means situated outside the engine-room whereby any discharge of water into the boats can be prevented;
(j) the assignment of specific duties to each member of the
crew in the event of emergency;
(k) the methods to be adopted and the appliances to be carried in ships for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire;
(l) the provision in ships of plans or other information relating to the means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreak of fire;
(m) the practice in ships of boat-drills and fire-drills;
(n) the provision in ships of means of making effective distress-signals by day and by night;
(o) the provision, in ships on voyages in which pilots are likely to be embarked, of suitable mechanical hoists, pilot-ladders, and of ropes, lights and other appliances designed to make the use of such hoists and ladders safe; and
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