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The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances For Ships Other Than Ships Of Classes III To VI(A)) Regulations 1999
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Ships of Class IX
17.—(1) This regulation applies to ships of Class IX.
(2) Paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (10) and (11) of regulation 10 shall apply to ships of Class IX of 500 tons or over, engaged on an international voyage, as it applies to Class VII of 500 tons or over.
(3) Every ship, other than a ship of 500 tons or over engaged on an international voyage, shall carry:
(a)a lifeboat of Class C boat or inflated boat which shall be capable of being launched on one side of the ship;
(b)one or more liferafts of sufficient aggregate capacity to accommodate the total number of persons on board, and in the case of a ship with 16 or more persons on board, at least two liferafts; and
(c)buoyant apparatus sufficient to support the total number of persons on board.
(4) In every ship, liferafts (other than those fitted in compliance with regulation 10(5)(b)(i)) shall be so stowed that they can be readily transferred to the water on either side of the ship.
(5) Paragraphs (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17) and (18) of regulation 10 shall apply to ships of Class IX as they apply to ships of Class VII.
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