34Portable fire appliances for spaces fitted with oil‑fired boilers

34 Portable fire appliances for spaces fitted with oil‑fired boilers

(1) A ship fitted with main or auxiliary oil-fired boilers shall be furnished in each firing space, and in each space containing any part of the oil-fuel installation, with not less than 2 portable fire extinguishers and, in addition, one portable fire extinguisher for each burner.

(2) Subregulation (1) does not require a ship to be furnished with more than 5 additional fire extinguishers for any one firing space.

(3) The fire extinguishers referred to in subregulation (1) shall be of the froth, the carbon-dioxide or the dry powder type but the number of the dry powder type furnished in the spaces referred to in that subregulation shall not exceed one-half of the number required to be furnished under that subregulation.