Spaces for
passengers.
(iv) the proposed sanitary accommodation and, in particular, the spaces so appropriated for each category of berthed passengers, male and female, unberthed passengers, male and female, and the crew:
(v) the proposed galley and cooking arrangements to be provided for unberthed passengers, including the arrangements for supplying fresh water to passengers; and
(vi) the proposed hospital accommodation.
(3) The owner of every ship to which these regulations apply shall, before any alteration to the passenger accommodation there- of is carried out, furnish to the Director for his approval a plan of the proposed alteration.
(4) Any plan furnished to the Director pursuant to paragraph (3) shall comply with the requirements prescribed in paragraph (2).
5. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply the compartments and spaces allocated for the accommodation of passengers shall, subject to paragraph (2), be situated in-
(a) the uppermost between deck; or
(6) the between deck next below the uppermost between
deck: or
(c) detached superstructures or properly permanently con- structed steel deckhouses above the uppermost between deck.
(2) Unberthed passengers shall not be carried upon the deck next below one deck of which only the floor is at any time below the summer load line marked on the ship in accordance with the provisions of the Load Line Rules for the time being in operation in Hong Kong.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation-
(a) a shelter between deck, if exempted under the tonnage rules in operation in the country in which the ship is registered, shall be deemed to be the uppermost between deck; and
(6) a partial shelter deck at the end of a detached super- structure shall be deemed to be a space in a detached superstructure for the purpose of the carriage of un- berthed passengers, whether in bunks or not, if all of the side openings therein can be closed by permanent means of closing appliance so as to render such space
reasonably weathertight and to the satisfaction of the Director.
(4) A hospital in a ship shall not be used as accommodation for any person other than-
(a) a passenger who is sick; or
(b) a member of the crew who is sick,
and a dispensary in a ship shall not be used as a sleeping place for any person.
(5) No stores or goods of any description other than such medical stores and medicines as are required to be carried on board a ship pursuant to the Merchant Shipping Medical Scales shall be stowed in any hospital or dispensary.
(6) No passenger shall be carried in any compartment or space allocated for the accommodation of any member of the crew of a ship, whether or not such compartment or space is deductible from the gross tonnage of the ship.
6. (0) In every ship to which these regulations apply every bulkhead enclosing or within any part of the spaces allocated for the accommodation of passengers, other than exercise space, shal! be constructed in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Passen- ger Ship Construction) Rules from time to time in operation in Hong Kong.
(2) Every bulkhead exposed to the weather shall be watertight and gastight and each opening in every such bulkhead shall be capable of being closed so that the bulkheads are weathertight.
(3) All inside panelling and ceiling shall be constructed in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construc- tion) Rules from time to time in operation in Hong Kong.
(4) No bulkhead or inside panelling shall be constructed of tongued and grooved boarding or other similar material or in any manner likely to harbour vermin therein.
(5) Any bulkhead which separates any space allocated for the accommodation of passengers, other than as exercise space, from any space used as-
(a) a permanent coal bunker,
(b) an oil fuel bunker;
(c) a machinery space;
(d)
a lamp room or paint room;
(e)
a dry provision store room or any store room other than
a linen locker, medicine locker or lifejacket locker:
Bulkheads.