### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built On or After 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1984年9月1日或之後建造的船舶)規例》

135. Openings in “B” Class divisions
(1) Where a “B” Class division is pierced for the passage of electric cables, pipes, trunks, girders or beams or for other purposes, the arrangements shall be such that the effectiveness of the division in resisting fire is not thereby impaired.
(2) The construction of all doors and frames in “B” Class bulkheads shall provide resistance to fire as well as to the passage of flame, as far as is reasonably practicable, equivalent to that of the bulkheads in which the doors are situated.
(3) The number of ventilation openings in “B” Class divisions shall be kept to a minimum and shall be provided as far as is reasonably practicable only in the lower part of a door and fitted with a grille constructed of steel or under a door except that such openings shall not be provided in a door in a “B” Class division forming a stairway enclosure. The net area of any such opening or openings shall not exceed 0.05 square metre and in no case shall a gap under a door exceed 25 millimetres. The grille shall be capable of being manually closed from each side of the door.
(4) Every door in a “B” Class bulkhead which forms a stairway enclosure or part thereof shall be self-closing.
(5) Hold-back arrangements may be fitted to doors to which subregulation (4) refers provided that such arrangements—
(a) have remote release fittings of a type which in the event of disruption of the control system will automatically close the doors; and
(b) will permit each door to be closed manually.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built On or After 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1984年9月1日或之後建造的船舶)規例》

137. Details of construction
All ceilings, linings, draught stops and their associated grounds in accommodation and service spaces and control stations shall be of non-combustible materials.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built On or After 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1984年9月1日或之後建造的船舶)規例》

138. Restriction of combustible materials
(1) All exposed surfaces in corridors and stairway enclosures and surfaces in concealed or inaccessible spaces within accommodation and service spaces and control stations shall be such that a surface spread of flame of Class 1 is not exceeded.
(2) Primary deck coverings in accommodation and service spaces and control stations shall be of an approved material which will not readily ignite or give rise to toxic or explosive hazards at elevated temperatures.
(3) Paints, varnishes and other finishes used on exposed surfaces within accommodation and service spaces, control stations and machinery spaces shall not contain nitrocellulose or other highly flammable base products and shall not be capable of producing excessive quantities of smoke. Such surfaces, except where otherwise required by these regulations, shall be such that a surface spread of flame of Class 2 will not be exceeded: provided that these requirements shall not apply to furniture, furnishings, machinery and similar items.
(4) (a) Insulating materials shall be of non-combustible materials except in respect of—
(i) materials used to insulate refrigerated compartments;
(ii) materials used to insulate valves associated with hot and cold service systems provided that their exposed surfaces are such that a surface spread of flame of Class 1 will not be exceeded; and
(iii) vapour barriers and adhesives used in conjunction with insulating materials, if their exposed surfaces are such that a surface spread of flame of Class 1 will not be exceeded.
(b) In a ship other than a post 1992 ship, a non-combustible bulkhead, lining or ceiling fitted in an accommodation or service space may have a combustible veneer which—
(i) in corridors, stairway enclosures and control stations, does not exceed 1.5 millimetres in thickness;
(ii) in any other accommodation or service space, does not exceed 2.0 millimetres in thickness. (L.N. 410 of 1995)
(c) In a post 1992 ship—
(i) the total volume of combustible facings, mouldings, decorations and veneers in any accommodation or service space bounded by non-combustible bulkheads, ceilings and linings shall not exceed a volume equivalent to a 2.5 millimetres veneer on the combined area of the walls and ceilings;
(ii) a non-combustible bulkhead, lining or ceiling fitted in an accommodation or service space may have a combustible veneer with a gross calorific potential not exceeding 45 megajoules per square metre of surface area for the thickness used as measured in accordance with the method specified in International Standard ISO 1716-1973(E), or with any International Standard replacing the same which the Director considers relevant from time to time and specifies in a Merchant Shipping Notice. (L.N. 410 of 1995)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built On or After 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1984年9月1日或之後建造的船舶)規例》

139. Miscellaneous items of fire protection
(1) Any pipe which penetrates an “A” Class division or “B” Class division shall be of suitable material having regard to the temperature such divisions are required to withstand.
(2) In accommodation spaces, service spaces or control stations pipes intended to convey oil or other flammable liquids shall be of a suitable material having regard to the risk of fire.
(3) Overboard scuppers, sanitary discharges or other outlets close to or below the waterline shall not be of a material likely to fail in the event of fire and thereby give rise to danger of flooding.
(4) Electric space heaters shall be fixed in position and shall be so constructed as to reduce the risk of fire to a minimum. No such heater shall be constructed with an element so exposed that clothing, curtains or other material can be scorched or set on fire by heat from the element.
(5) Cellulose-nitrate film shall not be used in cinematograph installations.
(6) All waste-paper receptacles shall be constructed of non-combustible materials with solid sides and bottoms.
(7) In spaces where penetration of oil products is possible, the exposed surface of insulation materials shall be impervious to oil or oil vapours.
(8) Every air space enclosed behind a ceiling, panel or lining within accommodation spaces, service spaces and control stations shall be divided by close fitting draughts stops which shall be spaced not more than 14 metres apart and which shall be closed at each deck.

140. Fixed fire detection and fire alarm system
In every tanker to which this Part applies a fixed fire detection and fire alarm system of an approved type complying with the requirements specified in Schedule 11 shall be so installed and arranged as to provide smoke detection and manually operated call points in all corridors, stairways and escape routes within accommodation spaces.

141. Special arrangements in machinery spaces
The following provisions shall apply to machinery spaces—
(a) the number of openings to machinery spaces shall be the minimum compatible with the proper working of the ship;
(b) windows shall not be fitted in machinery space boundaries; and
(c) any machinery space of Category A which is accessible from an adjacent shaft tunnel shall be provided with a light-weight steel fire-screen door in addition to any watertight door; the fire-screen door shall be operable from each side and shall be located at the shaft tunnel side of the bulkhead.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Protection) (Ships Built On or After 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(防火)(1984年9月1日或之後建造的船舶)規例》

145. Exemptions
The Director may grant exemptions from all or any of the provisions of these regulations (as may be specified in the exemption) for classes of cases or individual cases on such terms (if any) as he may so specify and may, subject to giving reasonable notice, alter or cancel any such exemption.

146. Offences
If regulation 10(5), (7), (8)(b) or (9)(b), 11, 37, 39(7), 53, 69, 72A, 101(1)(c), 110, 122(3), 125, 139(3), 142 or 143(6)(j), (k) or (m) is contravened in relation to a ship, the owner and the master of the ship each commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(L.N. 254 of 2018)

### Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations 《商船(最少乘客空間)規例》

1. Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Minimum Passenger Space) Regulations.