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 A — General

Regulation 14 : Radio apparatus and searchlights in motor lifeboats

Purchase

(a)

(i)

Where the total number of persons on board a passenger ship engaged on international voyages which are not short international voyages, a ship employed as a whale factory ship, a ship employed as a fish processing or canning factory ship or a ship engaged in the carriage of persons employed in the whaling, fish processing or canning industries, is more than 199 but less than 1 500, a radiotelegraph apparatus complying with the requirements set out in this Regulation and in Regulation 13 of Chapter IV shall be fitted in at least one of the motor lifeboats required under Regulation 8 of this Chapter to be carried in that ship.

(ii)	Where the total number of persons on board such a ship is 1 500 or more, such a radiotelegraph apparatus shall be fitted in every motor lifeboat required under Regulation 8 of this Chapter to be carried in that ship.

(b)	The radio apparatus shall be installed in a cabin large enough to accommodate both the equipment and the person using it.

(c)	The arrangements shall be such that the efficient operation of the transmitter and receiver shall not be interfered with by the engine while it is running whether a battery is on charge or not.

(d)	The radio battery shall not be used to supply power to any engine starting motor or ignition system.

(e)	The motor lifeboat engine shall be fitted with a dynamo for recharging the radio battery, and for other services.

(f)

A searchlight shall be fitted in each motor lifeboat required to be carried under paragraph (a) of Regulation 8 of this Chapter in passenger ships and under paragraph (c) of that Regulation in ships employed as whale factory ships, fish processing or canning factory ships and ships engaged in the carriage of persons employed in the whaling, fish processing or canning industries.

(g)

The searchlight shall include a lamp of at least 80 watts, an efficient reflector and a source of power which will give effective illumination of a lightcoloured object having a width of about 18 metres (60 feet) at a distance of 180 metres (200 yards) for a total period of six hours and shall be capable of working for at least three hours continuously.