Life Saving Equipment Regulations

66 (1) 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) If a ship navigates in waters the temperature of which is 15°C or more, the requirement in respect of the accommodation capacity of the life rafts or inflatable rescue platforms that is referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or 67(b) 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.