Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951) Schedules Second Schedule Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 Annex Chapter II-2 : Construction—Fire Protection, Fire Detection and Fire Extinction Part B — Fire Safety Measures for Passenger Ships Carrying More than 36 Passengers Regulation 20 : Fire integrity of bulkheads and decks

 

 

(b)        The following requirements shall govern application of the tables:

Table 2 shall apply to bulkheads not bounding either main vertical zones or horizontal zones.

Table 3 shall apply to decks forming steps in main vertical zones or bounding horizontal zones.

Table 4 shall apply to decks not forming steps in main vertical zones nor bounding horizontal zones.

Spaces containing emergency sources of power and lighting.

Wheelhouse and chartroom. Spaces containing the ship’s radio equipment.

Fire control and recording stations.

Control room for propelling machinery when located outside the propelling machinery space.

Spaces containing centralized fire alarm equipment.

Spaces containing centralized emergency public address system stations and equipment.

Interior stairways, lifts and escalators (other than those wholly contained within the machinery spaces) for passengers and crew and enclosures thereto.

In this connection, a stairway which is enclosed at only one level shall be regarded as part of the space from which it is not separated by a fire door.

Passenger and crew corridors.

(4)        Lifeboat and liferaft handling and embarkation stations.

Open deck spaces and enclosed promenades forming lifeboat and liferaft embarkation and lowering stations.

Open deck spaces and enclosed promenades clear of lifeboat and liferaft embarkation and lowering stations.

Air space (the space outside superstructures and deckhouses.)

Cabins containing furniture and furnishings of restricted fire risk.

Public spaces containing furniture and furnishings of restricted fire risk.

Public spaces containing furniture and furnishings of restricted fire risk and having a deck area of less than 50 square metres (540 square feet).

Officers and dispensaries containing furniture and furnishings of restricted fire risk.

Same as (6) above but containing furniture and furnishings of other than restricted fire risk.

Public spaces containing furniture and furnishings of restricted fire risk and having a deck area of 50 square metres (540 square feet) and greater.

isolated lockers and small storerooms in accommodation spaces. Sale shops.

Motion picture projection and film stowage rooms.

Diet kitchens (containing no open flame).

Cleaning gear lockers (in which inflammable liquids are not stowed).

Laboratories (in which inflammable liquids are not stowed).Pharmacies.

Small drying rooms [having a deck area of 4 square metres (43 square feet) or less].

Specie rooms.

Public spaces containing furniture and furnishings of other than restricted fire risk and having a deck area of 50 square metres (540 square feet) and greater.

Barber shops and beauty parlours.

Communal sanitary facilities, showers, baths, water closets, etc.

Small laundry rooms.

Indoor swimming pool area.

Operating rooms.

Isolated serving pantries in accommodation spaces.

Private sanitary facilities shall be considered a portion of the space in which they are located.

Water tanks forming part of the ship’s structure.

Voids and cofferdams.

Auxiliary machinery spaces which do not contain machinery having a pressure lubrication system and where storage of combustibles is prohibited, such as—

ventilation and airconditioning

rooms; windlass room; steering gear room; stabilizer equipment room;

electrical propulsion motor room; rooms, containing section switchboards and purely electrical equipment other than oilfilled electrical transformers (above 10 kVA); shaft alleys and pipe tunnels; spaces for pumps and refrigeration machinery (not handling or using inflammable liquids).

Closed trunks serving the spaces listed above.

Other closed trunks such as pipe and cable trunks.

Cargo oil tanks.

Cargo holds, trunkways and hatchways.

Refrigerated chambers.

Oil fuel tanks (where installed in a separate space with no machinery).

Shaft alleys and pipe tunnels allowing storage of combustibles.

Auxiliary machinery spaces as in Category (10) which contain machinery having a pressure lubrication system or where storage of combustibles is permitted.

Oil fuel filling stations.

Spaces containing oilfilled

electrical transformers (above 10 kVA).

Spaces containing turbine and reciprocating steam engine driven auxiliary generators and small internal combustion engines of power output up to 112 kW driving emergency generators, sprinkler, drencher or fire pumps, bilge pumps, etc.

Special category spaces (Tables 1 and 3 only apply).

Closed trunks serving the spaces listed above.

Main propelling machinery rooms (other than electric propulsion motor rooms) and boiler rooms.

Auxiliary machinery spaces other than those in Categories (10) and (11) which contain internal combustion machinery or other oilburning, heating or pumping units.

Main galleys and annexes.

Trunks and casings to the spaces listed above.

Main pantries not annexed to galleys.

Main laundry.

Large drying rooms [having a deck area of more than 4 square metres (43 square feet)].

Miscellaneous stores. Mail and baggage rooms.

Garbage rooms.

Workshops (not part of machinery spaces, galleys, etc.).

Lamp rooms.

Paint rooms.

Storerooms containing inflammable liquids (including dyes, medicines, etc.).

Laboratories (in which inflammable liquids are stowed).

 

 

 

TABLE 1.—BULKHEADS BOUNDING MAIN VERTICAL ZONES OR HORIZONTAL ZONES

 

 

TABLE 2.—BULKHEADS NOT BOUNDING EITHER MAIN VERTICAL ZONES OR HORIZONTAL ZONES

 

 

TABLE 3.—DECKS FORMING STEPS IN MAIN VERTICAL ZONES OR BOUNDING HORIZONTAL ZONES

 

 

TABLE 4.—DECKS NOT FORMING STEPS IN MAIN VERTICAL ZONES NOR BOUNDING HORIZONTAL ZONES