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Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Schedules

Second Schedule

Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974

Annex

Chapter III : Live-Saving Appliances, etc.

Part B — Passenger Ships Only

Regulation 33 : Buoyant apparatus

 

(a) No type of buoyant apparatus shall be approved unless it satisfies the following conditions:
(i) It shall be of such size and strength that it can be thrown from the place where it is stowed into the water without being damaged.
(ii) It shall not exceed 180 kilogrammes (400 lbs.) in weight unless suitable means to the satisfaction of the Administration are provided to enable it to be launched without lifting by hand.
(iii) It shall be of approved material and construction.
(iv) It shall be effective and stable when floating either way up.
(v) The air cases or equivalent buoyancy shall be placed as near as possible to the sides of the apparatus, and such buoyancy shall not be dependent upon inflation.
(vi) It shall be fitted with a painter and have a line securely becketed round the outside.

 

(b) The number of persons for which buoyant apparatus is certified shall be the number—
(i) ascertained by dividing the number of kilogrammes of iron which it is capable of supporting in fresh water by 14,5 (or the number of pounds divided by 32); or
(ii) equal to the number of millimetres in the perimeter divided by 305 (or the number of feet in the perimeter), whichever is the less.

 

 


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