Life Saving Equipment Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1436)
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Regulations are current to 2021-02-15 and last amended on 2020-10-06. Previous Versions
PART IEquipment to Be Carried by Existing Ships (continued)
Class II Ships(Ships that are over five tons gross tonnage and are (i) Safety Convention ships that are certified to carry more than 12 passengers on short international voyages, or (ii) ships that are not Safety Convention ships and that are certified to carry more than 12 passengers on home-trade voyages, Class II) (continued)
- SOR/96-218, s. 6
13 Every Class II ship making home-trade Class II voyages other than a Safety Convention ship, shall comply with the requirements of section 10, except that
(a) where accommodation for less than 300 persons is provided in life rafts, only one motor lifeboat need be carried, but where accommodation for 300 persons or more is provided in life rafts, a second motor lifeboat or mechanically propelled lifeboat shall be carried; and
(b) if the ship is less than 20 m in length and engaged on a voyage that does not go beyond the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it is not required to carry the survival craft VHF radiotelephone apparatus referred to in paragraph 10(j).
(c) to (e) [Repealed, SOR/96-218, s. 10]
- SOR/96-218, s. 10
- SOR/2000-261, s. 6
13.1 A Class II ship shall be provided with signs that indicate
- SOR/96-218, s. 11
- SOR/2004-26, s. 6
Class III Ships(Ships that are over five tons gross tonnage, are not Safety Convention ships and are certified to carry more than 12 passengers on home-trade voyages, Class III, or inland voyages, Class I)
14 A Class III ship shall carry
(a) where the ship is 18.3 m or under in length, the following survival craft:
(b) where the ship is over 18.3 m but under 22.9 m in length, one Class 1 lifeboat that is under davits and is of at least 2.12 m3 capacity;
(c) where the ship is 22.9 m or over in length, on each side of the ship, one Class 1 lifeboat that is under davits and has the appropriate capacity for the length of the ship, in accordance with the table to this paragraph, except that the lifeboats need not be of a greater aggregate capacity than is sufficient to accommodate the complement:
TABLE
Column I Column II Item Length of Ship Minimum Capacity of Each Lifeboat (m3) 1 22.9 m or over but under 30.5 m 3.540 2 30.5 m or over but under 45.7 m 4.248 3 45.7 m or over but under 61.0 m 7.079 4 61.0 m or over but under 91.4 m 8.495 5 91.4 m or over (home-trade voyage, Class III) 8.495 6 91.4 m or over (inland voyage, Class I) 14.158 (d) where the lifeboats referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) are insufficient to accommodate the complement, additional survival craft to make up the deficiency, consisting of one of the following or a combination of the two:
(i) equally distributed on both sides of the ship, Class 1 lifeboats, each under davits and of the appropriate capacity for the length of the ship, in accordance with the table to paragraph (c), or
(ii) life rafts or, if the embarkation station is 4.57 m or more above the waterline when the ship is in its lightest seagoing condition and the life rafts that are embarked at that station accommodate in total more than 50 persons, life rafts under launching devices that are capable of launching the life rafts within 30 minutes in calm conditions;
(e) where life rafts are carried pursuant to subparagraph (d)(ii), additional life rafts that
(f) where the ship is within the length range set out in column I of an item of a table to this paragraph, the supply of equipment set out in columns II to IV of
(i) where the ship is engaged on a home-trade voyage, Class III, that item in Table I, and
(ii) where the ship is engaged on an inland voyage, Class I, that item in Table II:
TABLE I
Home-Trade Voyages, Class III
Column I Column II Column III Column IV Item Length of Ship Lifebuoys Self-igniting Lights Buoyant Lifelines 1 18.3 m or under 2 1 1 2 Over 18.3 m but under 30.5 m 4 2 2 3 30.5 m or over but under 61.0 m 6 3 2 4 61.0 m or over 10 5 2 TABLE II
Inland Voyages, Class I
Column I Column II Column III Column IV Item Length of Ship Lifebuoys Self-igniting Lights Buoyant Lifelines 1 18.3 m or under 4 2 2 2 Over 18.3 m but under 61.0 m 6 3 2 3 61.0 m or over 10 5 2
(g) the following supply of lifejackets:
(h) for each life raft, the Class B (Canadian) emergency pack set out in section 2.1 of Schedule I;
(i) for each lifeboat, the equipment set out in section 1 of Schedule II and, for each approved boat, the equipment set out in section 2 of Schedule II;
(j) where the ship is over 45.7 m in length, a line-throwing appliance;
(k) the following distress signals:
(l) means of embarkation into survival craft; and
(m) if the ship is 20 m or over in length and engaged on a home-trade voyage, Class III, three survival craft VHF radiotelephone apparatus stowed so that they are readily accessible for immediate use.
- SOR/80-685, s. 8
- SOR/96-218, s. 12
- SOR/2000-261, s. 7
- SOR/2001-179, s. 10
- SOR/2004-26, s. 7
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