Singapore legislation

Regulation 15

of Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations

Regulation 15

Other arrangement

Amended byS 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014S 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014S 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014

Subregulation 1

Sufficiently and adequately ventilated accommodation for the hanging of oil skins shall be provided outside, but convenient to, the sleeping rooms.

Subregulation 2

In ships regularly engaged on voyages to mosquito-infested ports, provision shall be made to protect the crews’ quarters against the admission of mosquitoes by the fitting of suitable screens to side scuttles, ventilators and doors to the open deck.

Subregulation 3

Amended byS 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014

Where separate facilities for engine department personnel to change their clothes are provided on a new MLC ship, they should be —

(a)

located outside the machinery space but with easy access to it;

(b)

fitted with individual clothes lockers;

(c)

fitted with tubs or showers or both; and

(d)

fitted with wash basins having hot and cold running fresh water.

Subregulation 4

Amended byS 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014

All new MLC ships shall be provided with separate offices or a common ship’s office for use by deck and engine departments.

Subregulation 5

Amended byS 184/2014 wef 01/04/2014

The Director may exempt new MLC ships of less than 3,000 tons from paragraph (4).