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Fitth Schedule.

Lighting.

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(2) The permanent heating system required by paragraph (1) stoll be operated by steam, hot water or electricity, or shall be a system supplying warm air, and shall comply, as nearly as may be, with the : recommendations contained in the Fifth Schedule.

(3) The beating equipment shall be so constructed, installed and, if necessary, shielded as to avoid the risk of fire and not to constitute. a source of danger or discomfort to the crew, and in particular-

(a) means shall be provided, unless the provision thereof is un reasonable or impracticable in the circumstances, by which without the use of a tool or key, the beat emitted by the radiator or other heating device fitted in any space can be turned on and off and varied; and

(b) the heating equipment shall be so constructed that its operation is not affected by the use or non-use of any steering gear, deck machinery, calorifiers or cooking appliances in the ship, (4) The heating system shall be in operation at all times when any members of the crew are living or working on board the ship and circumstances require its use ;

Provided that while the ship is in port the heating system sball not be required to be in operation if efficient lemporary means of heating are provided for such parts of the crew accommodation as are in ass.

12. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply every part of the crow accommodation, other than pantries, laundries, drying rooms, lockers and store rooms, shall be properly lighted by natural light, except any space in a passenger steamer in which it is impracti cable to provide proper natural lighting, in which case such lighting shall not be required if adequate electric lighting is always available in that space:

Provided that the Director may exempt any ship from the require ment of this paragraph in relation to sanitary accommodation and passageways to the extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable in the circumstances,

(2) The natural lighting of a sleeping room, mess room, recreation room or hospital ward shall be deemed to be proper for the purposes of this regulation if it is sufficient to enable an ordinary newspaper to be read by a person of normal vision at any point in the room. being a point available for free movement, during day time and in clar

weather.

(3) Every side scuttle in a sleeping room, mess room, smoking room or recreation room in the crew accommodation of a ship to which these regulations apply shall be capable of being opened:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any side scattle, being a side scuttle in a passenger steamer which is required by the

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provisions of any regulations for the time being applicable to the Colony governing the construction of passenger ships to be of a non-opening type.

(4) In every ship of three thousand tons or over every such side scuttle shall be at least twelve inches in diameter :

Provided that the Director may exempt any ship from the require- ment of this paragraph to the extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable in the circumstances.

(5) In every ship to which these regulations apply an electrical gystem shall be installed which is capable of providing lighting to the satisfaction of the Director in every part of the crew accommodation and electric lights shall be so arranged as to give the maximum benefit ❘ to the crew, and in addition thereto an efficient alternative system of lighting or source of electric power shall be always available for lighting the crew accommodation :

Provided that the Director may exempt any ship of under five hundred tons from any requirement of this paragraph if he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable in the cinumstances and that other suitable artificial lighting is provided in he crew accommodation.

(6) (a) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (5) the electric lighting of the spaces ruferred to in sub-paragraphs (6) to (4) inclusive shall be deemed to be adequate for the purpose of this regulation if permanent lamp sockets and shades suitable to the lamps specified therein are installed and a sufficient supply of electric light bulbs made available to the crew such that, at the users' discretion, a lamp of forty. sixty or one hundred watts may be fitted in any socket and the lamps so sited as to illuminate to the satisfaction of the Director the various facilities referred to in those sub- paragraphs with light switches conveniently placed:

Provided that in every room, otherwise than a room specified in sub-paragraph (7), there shall be such number, not being less than one, of roof lights set below any overhead beams, trunks, pipes or other obstructions as shall illuminate the entire room to the satisfaction of the Director and of which not less than one such light shall be capable of being switched on and off from a point adjacent to every door of the room.

(6) Sleeping Rooms and Hospital Wards.

(1) One reading lamp at the head of each bed capable of being switched on and off from the bed.