1. These Regulations may be cited as the Crew Accommodation Regulations.

2. In these Regulations,

“Act”

“Act” means the Canada Shipping Act; (Loi)

“apprentice”

“apprentice” includes a cadet and a midshipman; (apprenti)

“Board”

“Board” means the Board of Steamship Inspection; (Bureau)

“crew”

“crew” means the officers, seamen and apprentices of a ship; (équipage)

“inspector”

“inspector” means a steamship inspector appointed under the Act; (inspecteur)

“new ship”

“new ship” means

• (a) a ship the keel of which was laid on or after March 5, 1964, or

• (b) a ship that is registered in Canada on or after March 5, 1964, having previously been registered elsewhere than in Canada; (navire neuf)

“sanitary accommodation”

“sanitary accommodation” means washing accommodation and accommodation containing water closets or urinals; (installations sanitaires)

“sleeping room”

“sleeping room” does not include a hospital ward. (poste de couchage)

• 3. (1) These Regulations apply to every ship required to be registered under the Act other than a fishing vessel, a pleasure yacht or a ship that is used for pulling or pushing any floating object.

• (2) The Board, or any inspector authorized by the Board, may, if it is considered appropriate to do so in the circumstances, exempt from the requirements of these Regulations

  • (a) any ship that is not a new ship;

  • (b) any ship under construction;

  • (c) any ship undergoing trials;

  • (d) any ship of under 300 tons, net registered tonnage;

  • (e) any ship that is primarily employed in a harbour, river, estuary, lake or canal;

  • (f) any passenger steamship in respect of which there is in force a passenger certificate limiting it to voyages other than foreign, home-trade Class I, home-trade Class II or inland Class I voyages; and

  • (g) any ship engaged in the whaling or sealing industry.