1969 Ed.]
Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations.
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(2) Every landing shall be at least as wide as the stairway to which it is fitted and shall be not less than 24 inches in length.
16. (1) The clear width of every entrance or exit door, hinged or sliding, shall be at least as wide as the stairways or passageway it serves when it is opened to the fullest extent.
(2) Every such hinged door shall open outwards.
(3) The clear opening of any entrance or exit doorway shall be not less than 30 inches in width.
(4) Every door of any entrance or exit doorway shall be fitted with self-closing devices.
(5) The Director may exempt any ship from the requirements of this regulation if he is satisfied that the safety of the passengers is not less protected by any other proposed arrangement.
17. (1) No lock or grille shall be fitted on the outside of any door providing means of egress from any space or compartment allocated for the accommodation of unberthed passengers to any weather deck.
(2) In order to prevent the pilferage of cargo stored in any space or compartment not allocated for the carriage of passengers, a strong lock, operable only from the inside, may be fitted to the inside doors providing ingress to and egress from such spaces or compartments.
(3) In any ship in which, in order to assist in the suppression of piracy, grilles are fitted to prevent any unauthorized access to any control position on the ship, the doors in such grilles may be locked when the ship is at sea, at the discretion of the master:
Provided that-
(a) the keys to such doors shall be kept, while the ship is at sea, in a place accessible and known to all officers of the ship; and
(b) one officer or other responsible person shall be deputed to open the said doors in the event of any emergency that might cause loss of life to any person other than an act of piracy or attempted piracy.
18. (1) Every ship to which these regulations apply, other than those ships engaged exclusively in the river trade area, shall be provided below the bulkhead deck with at least two means of escape from each compartment bounded by watertight bulkheads or similarly restricted space or group of spaces and at least one such means of escape shall be independent of watertight doors.
[Subsidiary]
Doors and entrances.
Locks and grilles.
Means of escape.
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1969 Ed.]
Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations.
[CAP. 281
N 15
(2) Every landing shall be at least as wide as the stairway to which it is fitted and shall be not less than 24 inches in length.
16. (1) The clear width of every entrance or exit door, hinged or sliding, shall be at least as wide as the stairways or passageway it serves when it is opened to the fullest extent.
(2) Every such hinged door shall open outwards.
(3) The clear opening of any entrance or exit doorway shall be not less than 30 inches in width.
(4) Every door of any entrance or exit doorway shall be fitted with self-closing devices.
(5) The Director may exempt any ship from the requirements of this regulation if he is satisfied that the safety of the passengers is not less protected by any other proposed arrangement.
17. (1) No lock or grille shall be fitted on the outside of any door providing means of egress from any space or compartment allocated for the accommodation of unberthed passengers to any weather deck.
(2) In order to prevent the pilferage of cargo stored in any space or compartment not allocated for the carriage of passengers, a strong lock, operable only from the inside, may be fitted to the inside doors providing ingress to and egress from such spaces or compartments.
(3) In any ship in which, in order to assist in the suppression of piracy, grilles are fitted to prevent any unauthorized access to any control position on the ship, the doors in such grilles may be locked when the ship is at sea, at the discretion of the master:
Provided that-
(a) the keys to such doors shall be kept, while the ship is at sea, in a place accessible and known to all officers of the ship; and
(b) one officer or other responsible person shall be deputed to open the said doors in the event of any emergency that might cause loss of life to any person other than an act of piracy or attempted piracy.
18. (1) Every ship to which these regulations apply, other than those ships engaged exclusively in the river trade area, shall be provided below the bulkhead deck with at least two means of escape from each compartment bounded by watertight bulkheads or similarly restricted space or group of spaces and at least one such means of escape shall be independent of watertight doors.
[Subsidiary]
Doors and entrances.
Locks and grilles.
Means of escape.
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