Regulation 7 - Surveys of passenger
ships
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(a) A passenger ship shall be subject to the surveys
specified below:
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(i) an initial survey before the ship is put in
service;
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(ii) a renewal survey once every 12 months, except
where regulation 14(b), (e), (f) and (g) is
applicable;
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(iii) additional surveys, as occasion arises.
(b) The surveys referred to above shall be carried
out as follows:
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(i) the initial survey shall include a complete
inspection of the ship's structure, machinery and equipment, including
the outside of the ship's bottom and the inside and outside of the
boilers. This survey shall be such as to ensure that the arrangements,
materials and scantlings of the structure, boilers and other pressure
vessels and their appurtenances, main and auxiliary machinery, electrical
installation, radio installations including those used in life-saving
appliances, fire protection, fire safety systems and appliances, life-saving
appliances and arrangements, shipborne navigational equipment, nautical
publications, means of embarkation for pilots and other equipment
fully comply with the requirements of the present regulations, and
of the laws, decrees, orders and regulations promulgated as a result
thereof by the Administration for ships of the service for which it
is intended. The survey shall also be such as to ensure that the workmanship
of all parts of the ship and its equipment is in all respects satisfactory,
and that the ship is provided with the lights, shapes, means of making
sound signals and distress signals as required by the provisions of
the present regulations and the International Regulations for Preventing
Collisions at Sea in force;
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(ii) the renewal survey shall include an inspection
of the structure, boilers and other pressure vessels, machinery and
equipment, including the outside of the ship's bottom. The survey
shall be such as to ensure that the ship, as regards the structure,
boilers and other pressure vessels and their appurtenances, main and
auxiliary machinery, electrical installation, radio installations
including those used in life-saving appliances, fire protection, fire
safety systems and appliances, lifesaving appliances and arrangements,
shipborne navigational equipment, nautical publications, means of
embarkation for pilots and other equipment is in satisfactory condition
and is fit for the service for which it is intended, and that it complies
with the requirements of the present regulations and of the laws,
decrees, orders and regulations promulgated as a result thereof by
the Administration. The lights, shapes, means of making sound signals
and distress signals carried by the ship shall also be subject to
the above-mentioned survey for the purpose of ensuring that they comply
with the requirements of the present regulations and of the International
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea in force;
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(iii) an additional survey either general or partial,
according to the circumstances, shall be made after a repair resulting
from investigations prescribed in regulation
11, or whenever any important repairs or renewals are made.
The survey shall be such as to ensure that the necessary repairs or
renewals have been effectively made, that the material and workmanship
of such repairs or renewals are in all respects satisfactory, and
that the ship complies in all respects with the provisions of the
present regulations and of the International Regulations for Preventing
Collisions at Sea in force, and of the laws, decrees, orders and regulations
promulgated as a result thereof by the Administration;
(c)
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(i) the laws, decrees, orders and regulations
referred to in paragraph (b) of this regulation shall be in all respects
such as to ensure that, from the point of view of safety of life,
the ship is fit for the service for which it is intended;
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(ii) they shall among other things prescribe the
requirements to be observed as to the initial and subsequent hydraulic
or other acceptable alternative tests to which the main and auxiliary
boilers, connections, steam pipes, high pressure receivers and fuel
tanks for internal combustion engines are to be submitted including
the test procedures to be followed and the intervals between two consecutive
tests.
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