(5.1. 1965/11033
(3. E. 1965)1105.)
ICLp. 281, xub.len)
Application
of the Rules.
"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;
"oil fuel unit" means the equipment used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to the oil burners of an oil-fired boiler and includes the oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters: "passenger space" means space provided for the use of passengers; **passenger steamer" means a steamer carrying more than 12
passengers,
"Rules" means the Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules 1965, made by the Board of Trade and in operation from time to lime in the United Kingdom;
**sailing ship" includes a ship provided with sufficient sail area for navigation under saits alone, whether or not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion;
"service space" includes galleys, main pantries, laundries, store rooms, paint rooms, baggage rooms, mail rooms, bullion rooms, carpenters' and plumbers' workshops, and trunkways leading to such space;
"selling tank" means an oil storage tank having a heating surface
of not less than 2 square feet per ton of oil capacity: "Simla Ruk Ship" means a ship of Class A, B, C, D, E or F as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations:
"tanker" means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the car- riage in bulk of liquid cargoes of an inflammable nature; "tons", in relation to the tonnage of a ship, means gross tons.
3. (1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations and to such consequential modifications as may be necessary to give effect to such provisions, the Rules shall apply in the case of a ship to which these regulations apply in the manner hereinafter specified:
Provided that in the case of existing Simla Ruke Ships which do not already comply with the Rules as modified by these regula- tions, compliance shall be deemed sufficient if such improvements as are reasonable and practicable are made with a view to providing substantial compliance with the general principles of the Rules as so modified.
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(2) In so far as the Rules are applied to a ship to which these regulations apply, references to the Board of Trade shall be con- strued as references to the Director of Marine.
(3) These regulations apply to British ships registered in Hong Kong and to other ships while they are within any port of Hong Kong.
(4) These regulations shall not apply to-
(a) a ship by reason of her being within a port of Hong Kong if she would not have been in any such port but for stress of weather or any other circumstances that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled: or
(6) pleasure yachts which are not passenger steamers and are
of less than 45 feet in length.
4.
For the purpose of these regulations, ships to which the regulations apply shall be arranged in the following groups-
(a) Group i ships, being ships of Class I and II as defined
in the Rules;
(8) Group 2 ships, being Simla Rule Ships and other ships of Class G as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations.
(c) Group 3 ships, being ships of Class VII, VIIA, VIII and
VIIIA as defined in the Ruks;
(d) Group 4 ships, being ships of Class IX. IXA and X as
defined in the Rules;
(e)
Group 5 ships, being launches and ferry vessels;
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Group 6 ships, being ships of Class XI and XII as defined in the Rules; and
(g) Group 7 ships, being tankers and operating either within the waters of Hong Kong or solely within the river trade Limits.
PART II.
Passenger STEAMERS.
5. The Rules applicable to ships of Class I and II shall apply to ships of Group I as they apply to ships of Class I and II.
6. (1) In every ship of Group 2 an efficient patrol system shall be maintained so that any outbreak of fire may be promptly
detected.
Classification of ships.
(Cap. 281, sub, lem.)
Ships of Group 1: Applica- tion.
Ships of Group 2: Fire patrol
and detection systems.