Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00887:reg:12:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2019C00887
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 12 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 65147–67930

12    Minimum width of adjacent passageway, measured clear of any fixed structures, receptacles or other obstructions, if pens are on both sides of the passageway and cattle are loaded and discharged through the passageway

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1 m

Note   Subsections 49(3) and (4) provide minimum width for passageways where pens are on 1 side only of the passageway.
       (2)For item 4, the clear floor area is the area of the pen excluding fixed receptacles, other objects or structures in the pen, but including a bar fitted in accordance with subclause 5.5(4) of Schedule 2.
       (3)For item 8, for a vessel constructed or converted for the carriage of livestock before 1 July 2018, the vessel is not required to comply until 1 July 2023, but must have railings with a minimum height of 1.4 m from the floor to the centre of the top rail.
       (4)If a water or food receptacle is fitted to the outside of a pen, or fodder is distributed on the floor outside a pen, a clear vertical space of not more than 500 mm may be provided between adjacent pen rails on the side of the pen adjoining the passageway, for watering or feeding livestock in the pen.
       (5)If cattle are carried in a stall, rather than a pen, the stall must comply with section 66 as if that section applied to cattle.
       (6)The deck for pens, passageways and ramps between decks must have a surface that provides a non-slip foothold for cattle.

63 Cattle — strength of pen and stall structures
       (1)Rails and stanchions that form a fore and aft boundary of a cattle pen or stall must be able to withstand a load per metre length, uniformly distributed up to the height of the top of the uppermost rail, using Formula 3:
Formula 3
F = 3336 B (0.574 + 0.0252 Z)
where:
F is the boundary load in newtons per metre length
B is the maximum breadth of pen, in metres
Z is the vertical distance from a point 0.75 m above the pen or stall floor to the vessel's water-line corresponding to the anticipated lightest load, in metres

Note   The approved stability booklet for the vessel contains the information for the load calculation.
       (2)However, a rail the centre of which is more than 1.4 m above the pen or stall floor is not to be included in the load calculations.
       (3)Rails and stanchions that form a boundary, other than a fore and aft boundary, of a cattle pen or stall must be of substantially the same method of construction and of substantially the same scantlings as required for the fore and aft boundaries.
       (4)Any two-thirds of the area of the floor of a cattle