Regulation 7

an initial survey before the ship is put in service; (ii) a renewal survey once every 12 months, except where Regulation 14( b ), ( e ), ( f ) and ( g ) is applicable; and (iii) additional surveys, as the occasion arises. [S 40/2000 wef 03/02/2000] ( b ) The surveys referred to above shall be carried out as follows: (i) The initial survey shall include a complete inspection of the ship’s structure, machinery and equipment, including the outside of the ship’s bottom and the inside and outside of the boilers. This survey shall be such as to ensure that the arrangements, materials and scantlings of the structure, boilers and other pressure vessels and their appurtenances, main and auxiliary machinery, electrical installation, radio installations including those used in life-saving appliances, fire protection, fire safety systems and appliances, life-saving appliances and arrangements, shipborne navigational equipment, nautical publications, means of embarkation for pilots and other equipment, fully comply with the requirements of these Regulations, for ships of the service for which it is intended. The survey shall also be such as to ensure that the workmanship of all parts of the ship and its equipment is in all respects satisfactory, and that the ship is provided with the lights, shapes, means of making sound signals and distress signals as required by the provisions of these Regulations and of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Collisions at Sea) Regulations (Rg 10) in force. (ii) The renewal survey shall include an inspection of the structure, boilers and other pressure vessels, machinery and equipment, including the outside of the ship’s bottom. The survey shall be such as to ensure that the ship, as regards the structure, boilers and other pressure vessels and their appurtenances, main and auxiliary machinery, electrical installation, radio installations including those used in life-saving appliances, fire protection, fire safety systems and appliances, life-saving appliances and arrangements, shipborne navigational equipment, nautical publications, means of embarkation for pilots and other equipment is in satisfactory condition and is fit for the service for which it is intended, and that it complies with the requirements of these Regulations. The lights, shapes, means of making sound signals and distress signals carried by the ship shall also be subject to the abovementioned survey for the purpose of ensuring that they comply with the requirements of these Regulations and of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Collisions at Sea) Regulations in force. [S 40/2000 wef 03/02/2000] (iii) An additional survey, either general or partial according to the circumstances, shall be made after a repair resulting from investigations prescribed in Regulation 11, or whenever any important repairs or renewals are made. The survey shall be such as to ensure that the necessary repairs or renewals have been effectively made, that the material and workmanship of such repairs or renewals are all in respects satisfactory, and that the ship complies in all respects with the provisions of these Regulations and of the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Collisions at Sea) Regulations in force, and such that the ship is fit for the service for which it is intended. [S 40/2000 wef 03/02/2000] ( c ) For the purpose of paragraph ( b ) the rules for the construction and survey of a vessel shall be the rules of the authorised organisation under which the vessel is classed, insofar as such rules are not in conflict with the requirements of these Regulations or any rule or directive made by the Director.