Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A)) Regulations 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/2515 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 2515
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(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 the powers conferred by section 85(1)(a) and (b), (3), (5) to (7) and section 86(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes III to VI(A) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 12th November 1998.
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, except in the case of a ship the keel of which was laid or which was at a similar state 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 of 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 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 such 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. M.1645, 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;
“buoyancy test” means a test carried out in accordance with Schedule 2 Section 4 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1699(M);
“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 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;
“dangerous goods” means goods defined as such in the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 19972, 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;
“deadweight” means the difference in tonnes between the displacement of a ship in water of a specific gravity of 1.025 and the lightweight of the ship;
“draught” means the vertical distance from the moulded base line to a subdivision load waterline;
“EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19923as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th May 1993;
“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 electric 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;
“every other ship” means a ship which requires a heeling test or buoyancy test given in column 4 of the tables in section 1 of Schedule 2 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1699(M);
“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 1699(M), as applied to that ship or portion as the case may be;
“favourable weather” means fine, clear settled weather with a sea state such as to cause only moderate rolling and/or pitching;
“freeboard deck” has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Rules 19984;
“forward perpendicular” means the forward extremity of the length of the ship;
“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;
“heeling test” means a test carried out in accordance with Schedule 2 Section 3 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1699(M);
“high speed craft” is a craft capable of a maximum speed in metres per second (m/s) equal to or exceeding—
where:
Δ = volume of displacement corresponding to the design waterline (m3);
“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;
“locked” means secured by a device which prevents unauthorised operation;
“machinery space” means any space extending from the moulded base line of the ship to the margin line 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 373 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 the main switchboard for distribution to all services necessary for maintaining the ship in a normal operational and habitable condition;
“main steering gear” means the machinery, rudder actuators, steering gear power units, if any, and auxiliary equipment and the means of applying torque to the rudder stock, such as the tiller or quadrant, necessary for effecting movement of the rudder for the purpose of steering the ship under normal service conditions;
“main switchboard” means a switchboard which is directly supplied by the main source of electrical power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the ship’s services;
“margin line” means a line at least 76 millimetres below the upper surface of the bulkhead deck at the side of a subdivided ship;
“Maritime and Coastguard Agency” means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions;
“maximum ahead service speed” means the greatest speed which the ship is designed to maintain in service at sea at her deepest seagoing draught;
“Merchant Shipping Notice”, “Marine Guidance Note” or “Marine Information Note” means a Notice Note described as such and issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;
“mile” means a nautical mile of 1,852 metres;
“navigable speed” means the minimum speed at which a ship can be effectively steered in the ahead direction;
“noise level” means “A” weighted sound pressure level in decibels dB(A) as defined and tabulated in the British Standards specification number EN 60651:1994;
“nominated surveyor” means a surveyor nominated by the Secretary of State to undertake the surveys required by these Regulations and includes a marine surveyor of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;
“open ro-ro cargo spaces” means...
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