Life Saving Equipment Regulations

72 (1) Subject to subsection (3), a Class VI ship shall carry

• (a) where the ship is engaged on a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage, Class II, enough life rafts or inflatable rescue platforms to accommodate the complement; and

• (b) where the ship is engaged on any other voyage, enough life rafts to accommodate the complement.

(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.

(3) A Class VI ship may carry, instead of the survival craft referred to in paragraph (1)(a), one lifebuoy for every four members of the complement if the ship operates within 150 m of shore or in a depth of water not exceeding 1.5 m.