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(b) any room appropriated for use only as a laundry,
(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, no structure shall be deemed to be watertight, gastight or oiltight for the purposes of these regulations unless all openings in that structure, other than ventilation openings necessary for the admission of air from passageways o sanitary accommodation, laundries, drying rooms or galleys, are pre- vided with means of closure which will cuable such openings to be made watertight, gastight or oiltight, as the case may be.
3.
These regulations shall apply to every British ship for the time being registered in the Colony, whether so registered before or after the date on which these regulations come into operation, not being or being constructed for use as a fishing boat or a pleasure yacht:
Provided that--
(a) these regulations shall not apply to any ship registered in the
Colony before the coming into operation of these regulations, until such ship undergoes a major overhaul or any alteration or addition which involves an alteration in the Tonnage Measurement; and
(b) the Director may, in the case of any such ship, grant such exemptions from the structural requirements specified in these regulations as he may consider expedient having regard to the circumstances appertaining to such ship.
4. (1) Every person to whose order a ship to which these regula- Lions apply is being constructed shall cause a plan of the ship, on a scale not smaller than I in 100, to be submitted to the Director before construction of the vessel is begun showing clearly the proposed arrange ment of the crew accommodation in the ship and its proposed position in relation to other spaces therein together with particulars and the position of any machinery which might affect the comfort and well-being of the crew intended to occupy such accommodation.
(2) Every such person shall cause the following plans to be sub mitted to the Director before the construction of any part of the crew accommodation is begun-
() plans of the proposed crew accommodation, on a sealt k smaller than 1 in 50 in the case of a ship under five hundred feet in length and not smaller than 1 in 100 in the case of any other ship, showing clearly the construction and the purpose for which each space therein is to be appropriated and the proposed disposition of the furnishings, fittings and obstructions therein; and
(b) plans showing clearly the proposed arrangements for supplying water to the crew accommodation and for draining, heating. lighting and ventilating the accommodation.
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(3) The owner of every ship to which these regulations apply shall cause to be submitted to the Director, before any alteration or recon- gration is carried out in the crew accommodation thereof. plans on the scales and showing the information referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2), and relating to the crew accommodation as altered or reconstructed: Provided that if the crew accommodation in any ship is altered or constructed at a place outside the Colony in consequence of an emergency or an accident to the ship, such plans shall be submitted to be Director as soon as may be.
5. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply the crew Position of accommodation, other than store rooms, shall be wholly situated above crew accom the Summer Load Line, if any, marked on the ship in accordance with
modation.
the provisions of the rules made under section 42 of the Merchant (22 & 23
Geo. 5, c. 9). Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932:
Provided that the Director may exempt from the requirement of this paragraph-
(o any ship of under two hundred tons.
(b) any passenger steamer,
(c) any tug.
(d) any cable ship,
(e) any salvage ship.
f any crane ship.
(e) any dredger and any ship engaged in the conveyance of the
spoil of dredging.
(b) any other ship not being a ship engaged in the carriage of
cargo.
if he is satisfied that compliance with such requirement is unreasonable or impracticable by reason of the size or intended service of the ship. 2) In every ship to which these regulations apply the crew accam- modation, other than store rooms, shall be situated amidships or aft:
Provided that--
(a) the Director may exempt any ship from the requirement con- tained in this paragraph to the extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable by reason of the size or intended service of the ship: and
(8) in ships of five hundred tons or over no part of the crew accommodation, other than store rooms, shall be forward of the collision bulkhead.
(3) Sleeping rooms forming part of the crew accommodation of a passenger steamer to which these regulations apply shall not be situated
Dmediately beneath a working passageway.
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