Div 2Sea-going Passenger Steamships carrying more than Twelve Passengers.

Division 2.—Sea-going Passenger Steamships carrying more than Twelve Passengers.

Determination of number of persons that a ship is certified to carry.

9. Where there is in force, in respect of any ship to which regulations 10 to 14 (inclusive) of these Regulations apply, a memorandum under section 216a of the Navigation Act (which relates to the modification of safety certificates in respect of life-saving appliances), the number of persons stated in the memorandum shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated as the number of persons which the ship is certified to carry.

Davits, lifeboats and buoyant apparatus.

10.—(1.) Every ship of Class I. shall be provided, in accordance with its length, with the number of sets of davits specified in column A of the Table in Schedule I.:

Provided that no ship shall be required to have a number of sets of davits greater than the number of lifeboats required to accommodate the total number of persons which the ship carries or is certified to carry, whichever number is the greater.

(2.) A lifeboat of Class 1 shall be attached to each set of davits.

(3.) Where the lifeboats attached to the davits do not furnish sufficient accommodation for the total number of persons which the ship carries or is certified to carry, whichever number is the greater, provision shall be made to the satisfaction of the Deputy Director to carry such additional lifeboats as are required to make up the deficiency in the accommodation.

(4.) Any additional lifeboats necessary to make up the total lifeboat accommodation required by sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation shall be lifeboats of either Class 1 or Class 2.

(5.) Subject to the provisions of regulation 61, the additional lifeboats shall be distributed as follows:—

(i) One additional lifeboat, up to the number required, shall be stowed under each set of davits;

(ii) The remaining boats (if any) shall be carried inboard.

(6.) Notwithstanding the requirements of sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, the Deputy Director may, if he is of the opinion that life-rafts will be more readily available and otherwise more satisfactory in a case of emergency than the additional lifeboats mentioned in paragraph (ii) of sub-regulation (5.) of this regulation, allow life-rafts to be carried, in lieu of any such lifeboats, with sufficient accommodation for those persons for whom accommodation is not provided in lifeboats:

Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply in any case unless the total capacity of the lifeboats under davits and stowed under boats attached to davits is at least equal to the minimum cubic capacity specified in column C of the Table in Schedule I.