### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built Before 25 May 1980) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1980年5月25日之前建造的船舶)規例》

30. Portable fire extinguishers
Every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over shall be provided with a sufficient number of portable fire extinguishers to ensure that at least one such extinguisher will be readily available for use in any part of the accommodation or service spaces. The number of such extinguishers shall not be less than 5 in a ship of 1,000 tons or over and not less than 3 in a ship of 500 tons or over but under 1,000 tons.

31. Fixed fire smothering arrangements in cargo spaces
(1) In every ship of Class VII of 2,000 tons or over there shall be provided a fixed fire smothering gas installation complying with the requirements of regulation 65 which shall be so arranged as to protect every cargo space; provided that subject to the provisions of regulations 57(1) and 65, steam may be substituted for fire smothering gas in any such installation.
(2) The Director may exempt any ship (other than a ship engaged in the carriage of dangerous goods of Classes 1 to 5) from the requirements of subregulation (1) in so far as such arrangements relate to the provision of a fixed fire smothering gas or steam installation in the cargo holds of the ship if he is satisfied that—
(a) the holds are provided with steel hatch covers and effective means of closing all ventilators and other openings; or
(b) the ship is constructed for, and employed solely in, the carriage of ore, coal, grain, unseasoned timber or non-combustible cargoes, or of cargoes which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, constitute a low fire risk; or (L.N. 411 of 1995)
(c) to require compliance with the requirements of subregulation (1) would be unreasonable on account of the short duration of the voyages on which the ship is engaged.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built Before 25 May 1980) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1980年5月25日之前建造的船舶)規例》

32. Machinery spaces containing oil-fired boilers or oil burning equipment
(1) In every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over there shall be provided for the protection of any space containing any oil-fired boiler, oil fuel settling tank or oil-fuel unit a fixed fire extinguishing installation of one of the following types—
(a) a pressure water spraying system complying with the requirements of regulation 64;
(b) a fire smothering gas installation complying with the requirements of regulation 65;
(c) a foam fire extinguishing installation complying with the requirements of regulation 66.
(2) In any such ship of under 1,000 tons a fixed fire smothering steam installation complying with the requirements of regulation 65 may be provided in lieu of any of the installations in subregulation (1).
(3) If the engine room and boiler spaces are not entirely separated from each other by a bulkhead, or if fuel oil can drain from the boiler space into the engine space, the combined engine and boiler space shall for the purpose or subregulation (1) be regarded as a single space.
(4) In addition to the fixed installation required by subregulation (1) there shall be provided—
(a) in each boiler space—
(i) if the number of burners therein is 5 or more, 1 foam fire extinguisher of at least 45 litres capacity or a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher of at least 16 kilograms capacity; or
(ii) if the number of burners therein is less than 5, for each burner 1 portable fire extinguisher suitable for extinguishing oil fires;
(b) in each firing space and in each space which contains any part of any oil fuel installation at least 2 portable fire extinguishers suitable for extinguishing oil fires, in addition to any required by paragraph (a);
(c) in each firing space a receptacle containing, in a ship of 1,000 tons or over, 0.3 cubic metre, or in a ship of under 1,000 tons, 0.15 cubic metre of sand or other dry material suitable for quenching oil fires together with a scoop for its distribution, or alternatively an additional portable fire extinguisher suitable for extinguishing oil fires.
(5) If in any such ship of under 1,000 tons a fixed fire smothering steam installation is fitted in compliance with subregulation (2) and steam is supplied by water-tube boilers, there shall in addition be provided for the protection of the boiler space and spaces containing the oil fuel installation 1 foam fire extinguisher of at least 135 litres capacity or a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher of at least 45 kilograms capacity.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built Before 25 May 1980) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1980年5月25日之前建造的船舶)規例》

33. Machinery spaces containing internal combustion type machinery
(1) In every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over there shall be provided for the protection of any space containing internal combustion type machinery used for main propulsion, or is used for auxiliary purposes and having a total power of not less than 746 kilowatts at least one of the fixed fire extinguishing installations required by regulation 32(1) provided that in any such ship of under 1,000 tons a fixed fire smothering steam installation complying with the requirements of regulation 65 may be provided in lieu.
(2) In addition to the requirements of subregulation (1) there shall be provided in any such space—
(a) 1 foam fire extinguisher of at least 45 litres capacity of a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher of at least 16 kilograms capacity; and
(b) 1 portable fire extinguisher suitable for extinguishing oil fires for each 746 kilowatts or part thereof of such machinery provided that not less than 2 nor more than 6 such extinguishers shall be required in any such space.

34. Machinery spaces containing steam engines
In every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over there shall be provided in spaces containing steam turbines or enclosed pressure lubricated steam engines used for main propulsion, or used for auxiliary purposes and having a total power of not less than 746 kilowatts—
(a) foam fire extinguishers each of at least 45 litres capacity or carbon dioxide fire extinguishers each of at least 16 kilograms capacity sufficient in number and so sited as to enable foam or carbon dioxide as the case may be to be directed on to any part of the pressure lubrication system and on to any part of the casing enclosing pressure lubricated parts of the turbines, engines or associated gearing, provided that such extinguishers shall not be required if equivalent protection is provided in such spaces by a fixed fire extinguishing installation fitted in compliance with regulation 32(1); and
(b) 1 portable fire extinguisher, for each 746 kilowatts or part thereof of such machinery, suitable for extinguishing oil fires, provided that not less than 2 nor more than 6 such extinguishers shall be required in any such space and provided further that such extinguishers shall not be required in addition to any provided in compliance with regulation 33.

34A. Paint lockers, etc.
In every ship of Class VII of 500 tons or over, every paint locker and flammable liquid locker shall be protected by an approved fire-extinguishing system.
(L.N. 411 of 1995)