### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Appliances) (Ships Built On or After 25 May 1980 but Before 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(消防裝置)(1980年5月25日或之後但1984年9月1日之前建造的船舶)規例》

72. Means of stopping machinery, shutting off oil fuel suction pipes and closing of openings
(1) In every ship to which these regulations apply there shall be provided means for stopping ventilating fans serving machinery, accommodation and cargo spaces. For machinery, cargo spaces and accommodation spaces there shall be provided means for closing all skylights, doorways, ventilators, annular spaces around funnel and other openings to such spaces. In passenger ships carrying more than 36 passengers means shall be provided to permit the release of smoke from machinery spaces. Such means shall be capable of being operated from positions outside the said spaces which would not be made inaccessible by a fire within such spaces.
(2) In every ship to which these regulations apply machinery driving forced and induced draught fans, oil fuel transfer pumps, oil fuel unit pumps and other similar fuel pumps shall be fitted with remote controls situated outside the spaces in which such machinery or pumps are situated. The controls shall be capable of stopping such machinery or pumps in the event of fire in such spaces. For machinery spaces in passenger ships carrying more than 36 passengers such controls together with the controls required in subregulation (1) shall be situated at one control position or grouped in as few positions as possible, as the Director may permit.
(3) In every ship to which these regulations apply every pipe connected to any oil fuel or lubricating oil storage, settling, or daily service tank, not being a double bottom tank, which if damaged would permit discharge of the contents so as to cause a fire hazard, shall be fitted with a valve or cock which shall be secured to the tank to which it is connected and which shall be capable of being closed from a readily accessible position outside the space in which the tank is situated: provided that in the case of any inlet pipe to such a tank, a non-return valve similarly secured to the tank may be substituted. In the case of an oil fuel or lubricating oil deep tank traversed by any shaft or pipe tunnel, a valve shall be fitted on the tank but an additional valve or valves may be fitted on the pipe line or lines outside the tunnel or tunnels to enable control to be exercised in the event of fire.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Appliances) (Ships Built On or After 25 May 1980 but Before 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(消防裝置)(1980年5月25日或之後但1984年9月1日之前建造的船舶)規例》

73. Fire control plans
(1) In every ship of Classes I and II and in every ship of Class II(A) of 21.34 metres in length or over there shall be permanently exhibited by the owner of the ship for the guidance of the master and officers of the ship, general arrangement plans showing clearly for each deck the position of the control stations, the sections of the ship which are enclosed by fire resisting bulkheads, the sections of the ship which are enclosed by fire retarding bulkheads, together with particulars of the fire alarms, fire detection systems, the sprinkler installations, the fixed and portable fire extinguishing appliances and firemen’s outfits, the means of access to the various compartments and decks in the ship, the ventilating system including particulars of the master fan controls, the position of dampers and identification numbers of the ventilating fans serving each section of the ship, the location of the international shore connection and the position of all means of control referred to in regulation 72.
(2) In every ship of 500 tons or over, other than a ship of Class I or II or a ship of Class II(A) of 21.34 metres in length or over, there shall be permanently exhibited by the owner of the ship for the guidance of the master and officers of the ship general arrangement plans showing clearly the information referred to in subregulation (1) where it is applicable to the ship.
(3) The general arrangement plans required by this regulation shall be kept up-to-date, any alterations being recorded thereon without delay.
(4) A duplicate set of the fire control plans shall be permanently stored in a prominently marked weather-tight enclosure outside the deck house for the assistance of shore-side fire-fighting personnel.
(5) Instructions concerning the maintenance and operation of all the equipment and installations on board for the fighting and containment of fire shall be kept in one book, readily available in an accessible position.

74. Availability of fire fighting appliances
Fire appliances carried in any ship to which these regulations apply shall be maintained in good order and shall be kept available for immediate use at all times. All movable fire appliances, other than firemen’s outfits, carried in compliance with these regulations shall be stowed where they will be readily accessible from the spaces in which they are intended to be used, and, in particular, one of the portable fire extinguishers intended for use in any space shall be stowed near the entrance to that space.

75. Fixed fire-extinguishing installation not required by these Regulations
In every ship where a fixed fire extinguishing installation not required by these regulations is provided, such an installation shall be to the satisfaction of the Director.

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Appliances) (Ships Built On or After 25 May 1980 but Before 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(消防裝置)(1980年5月25日或之後但1984年9月1日之前建造的船舶)規例》

76. Equivalents and exemptions
(1) Where these regulations require that a particular fitting, material, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, shall be fitted or carried in a ship, or that any particular provision shall be made, the Director may approve any other fitting, material, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, to be fitted or carried, or any other provision to be made in that ship, if he is satisfied by trial thereof or otherwise that such other fitting, material, appliance or apparatus, or type thereof, or provision, is at least as effective as that required by these regulations.
(2) 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.

77. Offences
If regulation 11(7), (8), (9) or (10)(a) or (d), 12, 39, 41(7), 60(1A) or 71 is contravened, the owner and the master of the ship concerned each commits an offence and is liable to a fine at level 4 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(L.N. 253 of 2018)

### Merchant Shipping (Safety) (Fire Appliances) (Ships Built On or After 25 May 1980 but Before 1 September 1984) Regulations 《商船(安全)(消防裝置)(1980年5月25日或之後但1984年9月1日之前建造的船舶)規例》

78. Several regulations are fire-fighting appliances regulations
Regulations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10A, 11 (except subregulations (7), (8), (9) and (10)(a) and (d)), 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 37A, 38, 40, 41 (except subregulation (7)), 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 51A, 51B, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 (except subregulation (1A)), 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74 and 75 are fire-fighting appliances regulations for the purposes of section 44 of the Ordinance.
(L.N. 253 of 2018)