Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (CREW ACCOMMODATION) REGULATION - SECT 5

Plans

(1) Every person to whose order a ship to which this Part applies is being
constructed shall submit the following plans to a surveyor of ships-

   (a)  before construction is begun, a plan of the ship on a scale not
        smaller than-

        (i)    1 in 100 in the case of a ship of less than 150 metres in
               length; and

        (ii)   1 in 200 in the case of any other ship showing clearly the
               proposed arrangements of the crew accommodation in the ship and
               its proposed position in relation to the ship's other spaces;
               and

   (b)  before construction of any part of the crew accommodation is begun-

        (i)    plans of the proposed crew accommodation on a scale not smaller
               than 1 in 50 showing clearly and in detail the purpose for
               which each space in the crew accommodation is to be
               appropriated and the proposed disposition of the furnishings,
               fittings and obstructions in it; and

        (ii)   plans showing clearly the proposed arrangements for supplying
               water to the crew accommodation, for covering the floors, and
               for heating, lighting, ventilating, insulating and draining the
               crew accommodation.

(2) The owner of every ship to which this Part applies shall, before any
reconstruction or alteration of the ship's crew accommodation is carried out,
submit to a surveyor of ships the plans specified in subsection (1) relating
to the crew accommodation as reconstructed or altered as the case may be:
Provided that if the crew accommodation is reconstructed or altered at a place
outside Hong Kong in consequence of any emergency or any accident to the ship,
such plans shall be submitted to a surveyor of ships as soon as practicable.
(Enacted 1995)