(1)
| (a) |
In every vessel all bulkheads enclosing or within any part of the crew accommodation must be properly constructed of steel or other suitable material to the satisfaction of the Authority. |
| (b) |
If bulkheads are exposed to the weather, the bulkheads must be of watertight and gastight construction, and means of closure must be provided for all openings in such bulkheads so as to enable the bulkhead and openings to be made watertight and gastight. |
| (2) |
Any bulkhead which separates any part of the crew accommodation, other than a recreation deck space, from a space used as— |
| (b) |
a cargo or machinery space; |
| (d) |
a storeroom not forming part of the crew accommodation, other than a dry provision store room; |
must be gastight, and where necessary, must be watertight to protect crew accommodation.
| (3) |
Any bulkhead which separates any part of the crew accommodation from a dry provision storeroom, whether or not such storeroom forms part of crew accommodation, must be gastight. |
| (4) |
Subject to the provisions of subregulation (1) of regulation 24, any bulkhead which separates any part of the crew accommodation from sanitary accommodation or from a laundry or drying room, galley or cold storeroom, whether or not such sanitary accommodation, laundry, drying room, galley or cold storeroom forms part of the crew accommodation must be gastight, and must be watertight to such height as is necessary in accordance with standard A3.1 paragraph 6.(e) of the Maritime Labour Convention. |
| (5) |
Any bulkhead separating sanitary accommodation from any other part of the crew accommodation must, except in a doorway, be watertight to a height of at least 230 millimetres above the floor of the sanitary accommodation: Provided that the requirements of this subregulation must not apply to bulkheads separating— |
| (a) |
sanitary accommodation from other sanitary accommodation; |
| (b) |
laundry or drying room from another laundry or drying room; |
| (c) |
a galley from another galley or a pantry; or |
| (d) |
a cold storeroom from another cold storeroom. |
| (6) |
Any inside panelling in crew accommodation must be constructed of suitable material with a surface which can be easily kept clean. |
| (7) |
Bulkhead or panelling must not be constructed in such a manner or of such material likely to harbour vermin. |
| (8) |
Bulkhead surfaces and deckheads in sleeping rooms and mess rooms should be capable of being easily kept clean and light in colour with a durable non-toxic finish. |
| (9) |
Decks in all seafarer accommodation should be of suitable material and construction and should provide a non-slip surface impervious to damp and easily kept clean. |
| (10) |
Where the floorings are made of composite materials, the joints with the sides should be profiled to avoid crevices. |
| (11) |
Bulkheads which enclose any part of crew accommodation and are exposed to weather, and any part of the side of the vessel which forms a wall or part of a wall of the crew accommodation, must be so insulated as to prevent overheating or condensation unless the crew accommodation is so protected by its situation and ventilation that overheating and condensation are unlikely to occur. |
(12)
| (a) |
Every bulkhead, casing or deck separating any part of crew accommodation from any space, including a cold storeroom, which is subject to abnormal heat or cold must be so insulated as to prevent condensation or discomfort to the crew. |
| (b) |
All machinery casings and all boundary bulkheads of galleys and other spaces in which heat is produced should be adequately insulated where there is a possibility of resulting heat effects in adjoining accommodation or passageways. |
| (13) |
Every bulkhead, casing or deck separating any part of the crew accommodation from any space, must be so insulated as to prevent exposure to hazardous level of noise and vibration to the crew in accordance with standard A3.1 paragraph 6(h) of the Maritime Labour Convention. |
(14)
| (a) |
There must be no direct openings into sleeping rooms from cargo and machinery spaces or from galleys, storerooms, drying rooms or communal sanitary areas that are part of a bulkhead separating such places from sleeping rooms. |
| (b) |
External bulkheads must be watertight and gastight and must be efficiently constructed of steel or other suitable material to the satisfaction of the Authority. |
| (15) |
There must be no opening in any of the bulkheads referred to in subregulation (4) except that— |
| (a) |
where sanitary accommodation or changing rooms provided for the exclusive use of engine room officers and ratings are sited adjacent to the propelling machinery space, there may be an opening in the propelling machinery space bulkhead to the sanitary accommodation or changing rooms and an opening from the sanitary accommodation or changing rooms to a passageway forming part of the crew accommodation: Provided that a hinged, steel, self-closing gastight door is fitted to the opening leading from the spaces referred to in this paragraph to the propelling machinery space; and |
| (b) |
where no other arrangement is practicable, there may be an opening in a bulkhead separating a passageway in the crew accommodation from a machinery space if that opening is provided with a hinged, steel, self-closing gastight door. |
| (16) |
Any part of crew accommodation which adjoins a tank in which oil, fuel oil, lubricant oil or other flammable oil or gaseous fuel may be carried must be separated from that tank either— |
| (a) |
by a gastight steel division additional to the division which retains the oil, fuel oil, lubricant oil or other flammable oil or gaseous fuel; or |
| (b) |
by a division of all-welded steel construction capable of withstanding a head of water at least 2.4 metres greater than the maximum service head. |
| (17) |
A manhole or any other opening to a fuel tank must not be situated in crew accommodation. |
Road Traffic Management Corporation Act, 1999
