Regulation 3 - Definitions

 Pantries or isolated pantries containing no cooking appliances may contain:

• coffee automats, toasters, dish washers, microwave ovens, water boilers and similar appliances each of them with a maximum power of 5 kW;
• electrically heated cooking plates and hot plates for keeping food warm each of them with a maximum power of 2 kW and a surface temperature not above 150°C.

A dining room containing such appliances should not be regarded as a pantry.

(This interpretation covers regulations II-2/26.2.2(9), II-2/27.2.2(3), II-2/44.2.2(3) and II-2/58.2.2(3).

• 1 Main pantries and pantries containing cooking appliances may contain:

  • coffee automats, toasters, dish washers, microwave ovens, water boilers and similar appliances each of them with a power of more than 5 kW,
  • electrically heated cooking plates and hot plates for keeping food warm each of them with a maximum power of 5 kW.

  (This interpretation covers regulations II-2/26.2.2(13) and II-2/27.2.2(9).

• 2 Spaces containing any electrically heated cooking plate or hot plate for keeping food warm with a power of more than 5 kW should be regarded as galleys.

 Cargo spaces also include tanks for other liquid cargo.

 A ro-ro cargo space which is open at one end only should, in order to be considered as an "open ro-ro cargo space" be provided on both sides with openings without closing appliances. The opening should have such size and be so located that a sufficient natural ventilation is achieved in the whole space, which normally means that the total area of the openings should be at least 10% of the total area of the sides of the space.

 Spaces which contain oil-fired equipment other than boilers, such as inert gas generators, incinerators, etc. should be considered as machinery spaces of category "A" in accordance with this regulation.

• 1 Main navigational equipment includes, in particular, the steering stand and the compass, radar and direction-finding equipment.

• 2 Steering gear rooms containing an emergency steering position are not considered to be control stations.

• 3 Where in the regulations of chapter II-2 relevant to fixed fire-extinguishing systems there are no specific requirements for the centralization within a control station of major components of a system, such major components may be placed in spaces which are not considered to be a control station.

• 4 Spaces containing, for instance, the following battery sources should be regarded as control stations regardless of the battery capacity:

  • .1 emergency batteries in separate battery room for power supply from black-out till start of the emergency generator;

  • .2 emergency batteries in separate battery room as reserve source of energy to radiotelegraph installation;

  • .3 batteries for start of the emergency generator; and

  • .4 in general, all emergency batteries required in pursuance of regulation II-1/42 or regulation II-1/43.

 The communication systems here mean only internal communication systems which are required by the regulations.