1964_MERCHANT_SHIPPING_(LIFE_SAVING_APPLIANCES)_REGULATIONS — Page 7

1969 Ed.]

Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Regulations.

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regulation) do not provide accommodation for the total number of persons which the ship is certified to carry or the minimum cubic capacity specified in column (F) of the table set out in the First Schedule to these regula- tions whichever is the less, additional sets of davits with lifeboats attached shall be fitted so far as is practicable in the circumstances to make up the deficiency in such accommodation. If in the opinion of the Director it is not practicable to fit such additional sets of davits, addi- tional lifeboats or, in the discretion of the Director, such approved liferafts or other approved buoyant apparatus 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.

(ii) In the case of ships of Class B engaged on voyages in Area B specified in the Third Schedule to these regula- tions where the lifeboats carried in compliance with the foregoing provisions of this rule (as modified by this regulation) do not accommodate eighty per cent of the total number of persons which the ship is certified to carry, or the minimum cubic capacity specified in column (F) of the First Schedule to these regulations, whichever is the less, additional sets of davits with lifeboats attached shall be fitted so far as is practicable in the circumstances to make up the deficiency in such accommodation. If in the opinion of the Director it is not practicable to fit such additional sets of davits, additional lifeboats or, in the discretion of the Director, such approved liferafts or other buoyant apparatus 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 required to be 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 at least the number of lifebuoys determined in accordance 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 rule 3 of the Rules

shall not apply to ships of Class B.

[Subsidiary]

First Schedule.

Third Schedule.

First Schedule.

Second Schedule.