52Additional fire hydrants

52 Additional fire hydrants

(1) This regulation applies to a ship that:

(a) is a passenger ship; or

(b) is a cargo ship of 500 tons or more.

(2) Where:

(a) a machinery space in a ship to which this regulation applies is required, by virtue of regulation 20, 21, 33 or 36, as the case may be, to be furnished with a fire-fighting system of a kind referred to in whichever of those regulations is applicable; and

(b) access to that machinery space is provided at a low level:

(i) by means of an adjacent shaft tunnel; or

(ii) from an adjacent space;

and that tunnel or that space is part of an escape route from that machinery space;

an additional fire hydrant shall be fitted outside the machinery space near the escape route entrance to the machinery space.