Life Saving Equipment Regulations

66 (1) Subject to section 67, a Class V ship shall carry

• (a) enough life rafts or inflatable rescue platforms to accommodate the complement; and

• (b) unless the ship has a freeboard of less than 1.5 m or is fitted with a boarding platform, one emergency boat.

(2) Where the ship operates in waters the temperature of which is 10°C or more, the survival craft accommodation capacity required under paragraph (1)(a) may be met by counting not more than 33.33 per cent of the complement of the life raft or inflatable rescue platform as being in the water, holding on to the life raft or inflatable rescue platform.