MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 427



427.(1) The [Board of Trade] may, in relation to any ships to which this
section applies, make rules (in this Act called "rules for life-saving
appliances") with respect to all or any of the following matters, namely:

(a)the arranging of ships into classes, having regard to the services in which
they are employed, to the nature and duration of the voyage, and to the number
of persons carried;

(b)the number, description, and mode of construction of the boats, life rafts,
line-throwing appliances, life-jackets, and lifebuoys to be carried by ships,
according to the classes in which the ships are arranged;

(c)the equipment to be carried by any such boats and rafts and the methods to
be provided to get the boats and other life-saving appliances into the water,
including oil for use in stormy weather;

(d)the provision in ships of a proper supply of lights inextinguishable in
water, and fitted for attachment to lifebuoys;

(e)the quantity, quality and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on
board ships ..., either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life
rafts, life-jackets and lifebuoys;

(f)the position and means of securing the boats, life rafts, life-jackets,
lifebuoys and buoyant apparatus;

(g)the marking of the boats, life rafts and buoyant apparatus so as to show
their dimensions and the number of persons authorised to be carried on them;

(h)the manning of the lifeboats and the qualifications and certificates of
lifeboat men;

(j)the provision to be made for mustering the persons on board, and for
embarking them in the boats (including provision for the lighting of, and the
means of ingress to and egress from, different parts of the ship);

(k)the provision of suitable means situated outside the engine-room whereby
any discharge of water into the boats can be prevented;

(l)the assignment of specific duties to each member of the crew in the event
of emergency;

<(m)the methods to be adopted and the appliances to be carried in ships for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire;


[(mm)the provision in ships of plans or other information relating to the
means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of
fire;]

(n)the practice in ships of boat-drills and fire-drills;

(o)the provision in ships of means of making effective distress-signals by day
and by night;

(p)the provision, in ships engaged on voyages in which pilots are likely to be
embarked, of suitable pilot-ladders, and of ropes, lights and other appliances
designed to make the use of such ladders safe, and

(q)the examination [and maintenance] at intervals to be prescribed by the
rules of any appliances or equipment required by the rules to be carried.

(2) This section applies to

(a)British ships, except ships registered in a Dominion within the meaning of
the Statute of Westminster, 1931, or in India, Pakistan, [Ceylon, Ghana,
Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Jamaica,
Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, Malawi, Malta, The Gambia,
Guyana, Singapore, Barbados, Mauritius, Fiji, the Bahamas, Bangladesh,
Grenada, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Kiribati,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Papua New Guinea, Western Samoa, Nauru, the
New Hebrides or Zimbabwe] or in any territory administered by His Majesty's
government in any such Dominion;

(b)other ships while they are within any port in the United Kingdom:

Provided that this section shall not apply to a ship by reason of her being
within a port in the United Kingdom if she would not have been in any such
port but for stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the
master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have
prevented or forestalled.]

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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 427