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Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations.
[1969 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Safety measures - piping installations, notices, entrances and exits, hatchway openings and ventilation trunks.
(b) a material, approved by the Director, not likely to be damaged by surgical spirits or other liquids used in the hospital or dispensary, laid to the satisfaction of the Director.
8. (1) No steam supply or exhaust pipe for steering gear, winches, rice boilers or other similar equipment shall be fitted to pass through any compartment or space allocated for the accommodation of passengers in any ship to which these regulations apply:
Provided that, where the Director is satisfied that any alternative arrangement is unreasonable or impracticable in the circumstances, he may permit such pipes, if insulated and encased to his satisfaction, to be fitted to pass through passageways accessible to passengers, subject, in the case of supply pipes, to the following conditions-
(a) the pipes shall be soundly constructed of solid drawn steel or other suitable material;
(b) the pipes shall be of a scantling sufficient to withstand the maximum pressure from the ship's boiler system;
(c) all connexions in the pipes shall be by faced flanges properly jointed; and
(d) the pipes shall be fitted with adequate drainage arrangements.
(2) Every steam pipe, hot water pipe and calorifier in or serving any sanitary accommodation or hospital shall be efficiently lagged for the protection of any person from injury or discomfort.
(3) Every piping system that is part of a smothering-gas or steam installation, which serves a compartment or space to which passengers have access or which has been allocated as accommodation for unberthed passengers shall-
(a) for the purpose of guarding against inadvertent operation of the system whilst passengers are within such compartments or spaces, be fitted with an additional valve or cock, which can be locked; and
(b) be made so as to enable a length of pipe outside such compartment or space, preferably adjacent to the control valve, to be removed.
(4) Conspicuous notices indicating the precautionary measures to be adopted in case of an emergency shall be posted in every compartment or space referred to in paragraph (3) and also in the control station.
(5) The means of access to and egress from a space or compartment allocated for the accommodation of passengers shall be
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N 10
CAP. 281]
Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations.
[1969 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Safety measures -piping instal- lations, notices, entrances and exits, hatchway openings and ventilation trunks.
(b) a material, approved by the Director, not likely to be damaged by surgical spirits or other liquids used in the hospital or dispensary, laid to the satisfaction of the Director.
8. (1) No steam supply or exhaust pipe for steering gear, winches, rice boilers or other similar equipment shall be fitted to pass through any compartment or space allocated for the accom- modation of passengers in any ship to which these regulations apply:
Provided that, where the Director is satisfied that any alterna- tive arrangement is unreasonable or impracticable in the circum- stances, he may permit such pipes, if insulated and encased to his satisfaction, to be fitted to pass through passageways accessible to passengers, subject, in the case of supply pipes, to the following conditions-
(a) the pipes shall be soundly constructed of solid drawn
steel or other suitable material;
(b) the pipes shall be of a scantling sufficient to withstand the maximum pressure from the ship's boiler system; (c) all connexions in the pipes shall be by faced flanges
properly jointed; and
(d) the pipes shall be fitted with adequate drainage arrange-
ments.
(2) Every steam pipe, hot water pipe and calorifier in or serving any sanitary accommodation or hospital shall be efficiently lagged for the protection of any person from injury or discomfort.
(3) Every piping system that is part of a smothering-gas or steam installation, which serves a compartment or space to which passengers have access or which has been allocated as accom- modation for unberthed passengers shall-
(a) for the purpose of guarding against inadvertent operation of the system whilst passengers are within such compart- ments or spaces, be fitted with an additional valve or cock, which can be locked; and
(b) be made so as to enable a length of pipe outside such compartment or space, preferably adjacent to the control valve, to be removed.
(4) Conspicuous notices indicating the precautionary meas- ures to be adopted in case of an emergency shall be posted in every compartment or space referred to in paragraph (3) and also in the control station.
(5) The means of access to and egress from a space or com- partment allocated for the accommodation of passengers shall be
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