1964_MERCHANT_SHIPPING_(LIFE_SAVING_APPLIANCES)_REGULATIONS — Page 13

1969 Ed.]

Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations.

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additional lifeboats or, in the discretion of the Director, such approved liferafts or other approved buoyant ap- paratus as he may think fit to make up the deficiency shall be carried, such additional lifeboats or such liferafts or buoyant apparatus being stowed in such manner as the Director may determine but not so as to impede the efficient operation of the two emergency boats carried in compliance with paragraph (4) of this rule.

(c) The following provisions are substituted for the provisions contained in paragraph (13) of rule 3 of the Rules-

Every ship to which this rule applies shall carry not less than the number of lifebuoys determined in accord- ance with column 2 of Part I of the table set out in the Second Schedule to these regulations.

(d) The provisions of paragraph (12) of the Rules shall not

apply to ships of Class E.

(3) Rule 33 of the Rules shall apply to lifeboats carried in ships of Class E in the same manner as it applies to lifeboats carried in ships of Class I subject to the following modification, namely, that the Director may in his discretion authorize a reduc- tion, not exceeding one half, in the quantity of condensed milk required to be carried by such lifeboats.

Second Schedule.

9. (1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, the Rules Ships of Class F. shall apply to ships of Class F in the same manner as they apply

to ships of Class II.

(2) Rule 4 of the Rules shall apply to ships of Class F subject to the following modifications---

(a) The following provisions are substituted for the provisions

contained in paragraph (2) of rule 4 of the Rules-

Every ship to which this rule applies shall, subject to the provisions of section 118 of the Ordinance and of rule 48 of the Rules (as modified by regulation 2 of these regulations), be fitted, in accordance with its length, with the number of sets of davits determined-

(i) in the case of ships certified to carry more than twelve berthed passengers, in accordance with column (A) of the table set out in the First Schedule to these regulations; and

(ii) in the case of ships certified to carry twelve berthed passengers or less, in accordance with column (C) of such table:

(Cap. 281.)

First Schedule.