Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/2514 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 2514
MERCHANT SHIPPINGSAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998
Made 8th October 1998
Laid before Parliament 19th October 1998
Coming into force 12th November 1998
The Secretary of State, after consulting the persons referred to in section 86(4) of the Merchant Shipping Act 19951, in exercise of powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3) and (5) to (7) and section 86(1) and (2) of that Act and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 12th November.
(2) The following Regulations are hereby revoked—
(a)
(a) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) Regulations 19802;
(b)
(b) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 19813;
(c)
(c) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Classification) Regulations 19814;
(d)
(d) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) Regulations 19845;
(e)
(e) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 19856;
(f)
(f) the Merchant Shipping (Application of Construction and Survey Regulations to Other Ships) Regulations 19857;
(g)
(g) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) (New and Existing Ships) (Amendment) Regulations 19868;
(h)
(h) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction) (Amendment) Regulations 19879;
(i)
(i) the Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Hulls and in Watertight Bulkheads) Regulations 198710;
(j)
(j) the Merchant Shipping (Stability of Passenger Ships) Regulations 198811;
(k)
(k) the Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) Regulations 198812;
(l)
(l) the Merchant Shipping (Closing of Openings in Enclosed Superstructures and in Bulkheads above the Bulkhead Deck) (Application to Non-United Kingdom Ships) Regulations 198813;
(m)
(m) the Merchant Shipping (Loading and Stability Assessment of Ro-Ro Passenger Ships) (Non-United Kingdom Ships) Regulations 198914;
(n)
(n) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) (Amendment) Regulations 199015;
(o)
(o) the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction and Survey) (Amendment) Regulations 199216; and
(p)
(p) the Anchors and Chain Cables Rules 197017.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
(a)
(a) a reference to a ship constructed on or after a specified date is a reference to a ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after that date; but in the case of a ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar stage of construction before a specified date, but which was not a passenger ship, which is converted to a passenger ship after that date, the ship is to be treated as constructed on the date on which such conversion commences;
(b)
(b) a reference to a numbered regulation is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the regulation of that number in these Regulations;
(c)
(c) a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the paragraph of that number in that regulation; and
(d)
(d) where a sub-heading refers to “requirements” or to “additional requirements” for certain ships, the text following such a sub-heading in that regulation (or until the next sub-heading in that regulation) shall (unless the context otherwise requires) relate only to such ships.
(2) In these Regulations the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, except where the context requires otherwise—
“approved” means approved by the Secretary of State or, in relation to any equipment or arrangement mentioned in Merchant Shipping Notice No. M1645, by any persons specified in that Notice in relation to such equipment or arrangement;
“auxiliary steering gear” means the equipment, other than any part of the main steering gear, necessary to steer the ship in the event of failure of the main steering gear but not including the tiller, quadrant or components serving the same purpose;
“breadth of the ship” means the greatest moulded breadth at or below the ship’s deepest subdivision load waterline;
“bulkhead deck” means the uppermost deck up to which transverse watertight bulkheads are carried;
“Certifying Authority” means the Secretary of State or any person authorised by the Secretary of State;
“control room” means a room either within or outside a propelling machinery space, from which propelling machinery and boilers may be controlled;
“crew space” means crew accommodation within the meaning of section 43 in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;
“dangerous goods” means goods defined as such in the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 199718, and any reference to a particular Class of dangerous goods is a reference to that Class of dangerous goods as defined in those Regulations;
“dead ship condition” means the condition under which the main propulsion plant, boilers and auxiliaries are not in operation due to the absence of power;
“draught” unless stated otherwise, means the vertical distance from the underside of keel amidships to a subdivision load waterline;
“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th May 199319;
“EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement;
“emergency condition” means a condition under which any services needed for normal operational and habitable conditions are not in working order due to failure of the main source of electrical power;
“emergency source of electrical power” means a source of electrical power intended to supply the emergency switchboard in the event of failure of the main source of electrical power;
“emergency switchboard” means a switchboard which in the event of failure of the main electrical power supply system is directly supplied by the emergency source of electrical power or the transitional source of emergency electrical power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the emergency services;
“enclosed superstructure” means a superstructure—
(a) which has enclosing bulkheads of efficient construction in which all access openings are fitted with sills and weathertight doors; and
(b) in which all other openings in the sides or ends thereof are fitted with efficient weathertight means of closing;
but does not include a bridge or poop fulfilling these requirements unless access to machinery and other working spaces within the bridge or poop is provided by alternative means which are available at all times when access openings in the bulkheads of the bridge or poop are closed;
“factor of subdivision” in relation to any ship or portion thereof means the factor of subdivision determined in accordance with such provisions of Schedule 2 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1698(M) as apply to that ship or portion as the case may be;
“forward perpendicular” means the forward extremity of the length of the ship;
“freeboard deck” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Rules 199820;
“hazardous area” means an area in which explosive gas-air mixtures are, or may be expected to be, present in quantities such as to require special precautions for the construction and use of electrical apparatus or other apparatus which otherwise would constitute a source of ignition;
“high speed craft” is a craft capable of a maximum speed in metres per second (m/s) equal to or exceeding—
where
∇ = volume of displacement corresponding to the design waterline (m3);
“IMOIMO” means the International Maritime Organization;
“IMOIMO Resolution A.265 (VIII)” means Resolution A.265 (VIII) adopted by IMOIMO, entitled “Regulations on Subdivision and Stability of Passenger Ships as an Equivalent to Part B of Chapter II of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1960”;
“independent power pump” means a pump operated by power otherwise than from the ship’s main engines;
“length” in relation to a ship, unless otherwise defined, means the length of a ship measured between perpendiculars taken at the extremities of the deepest subdivision load waterline;
“lightweight” means the displacement of a ship in tonnes without cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, fresh water and feed water in tanks, consumable stores and passengers and crew and their effects;
“machinery space”, except in Parts II to VI, means any space which contains propelling machinery, boilers, oil fuel units, steam and internal combustion engines, generators and major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating, stabilising, ventilation and air conditioning machinery and similar spaces, and where the context so admits any trunk to such a space;
“machinery space” in Parts II to VI means any space extending from the moulded base line of the ship to the bulkhead deck and between the extreme transverse watertight bulkheads bounding the spaces containing the main and auxiliary propelling machinery, generators and boilers serving the needs of propulsion, when installed;
“machinery spaces of Category A” means a machinery space which contains—
(a) internal combustion type machinery used either for main propulsion purposes or for other purposes where such machinery has in the aggregate a total power output of not less than 375 kilowatts; or
(b) any oil-fired boiler or oil fuel unit;
“main generating station” means the space in which the main source of electrical power is situated;
“main source of electrical power” means a source intended to supply electrical power to...
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