NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968

Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

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NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968

- made under the Navigation Act 1912

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I--PRELIMINARY

1. Name of Regulations see Note 1]
3. Repeal
4. Interpretation
4A. Length of ship
5. Application
6. Exemptions

PART II--WATERTIGHT SUBDIVISION IN PASSENGER SHIPS
Division 1 General

8. Watertight subdivision
Division 2 Peak and machinery space bulkheads etc
9. Collision bulkhead
10. Afterpeak and machinery space bulkheads
11. Stern gland and stern tube compartments
Division 3 Double bottoms
12. Double bottoms
13. Inner bottom of double bottom
14. Well not to be constructed in double bottom
15. Double bottom not required
Division 4 Stability in damaged condition
16. Determination of stability in damaged condition
17. Intact stability
18. Unsymmetrical flooding
19. Information as to cross-flooding fittings and stability to be carried on ships
20. Damage control plans
21. Exemption
Division 5 Construction of watertight bulkheads etc
22. Construction of watertight bulkheads etc
23. Tanks for storing liquids to be adequately constructed
Division 6 Openings in watertightbulkheads etc
24. Openings in watertight bulkheads and other structures
25. Watertight bulkheads not to be pierced by trunkways
26. Doorways in watertight bulkheads in machinery spaces
27. Certain openings in watertight bulkheads not to be made
28. Doorways etc in collision bulkheads etc
29. Tunnels passing through watertight bulkheads
30. Connection of shaft tunnels
31. Openings in watertight bulkheads
Division 7 Means of closing openings in watertight bulkheads etc
32. All openings in watertight bulkheads to be closed by means of watertight doors etc
33. Sliding doors to be fitted
Division 8 Construction of watertight doors
34. Construction and fitting of watertight doors generally
35. Material of watertight doors
36. Closing of watertight doors
37. Rubbing faces to be fitted to watertight doors
38. Screw gear on watertight doors
39. Frame of watertight doors
40. Vertically sliding watertight doors
41. Horizontally sliding watertight doors
42. Coal-bunker watertight doors
Division 9 Sliding watertight doors
43. Means of operating sliding watertight doors
44. Control of power operated sliding watertight doors
45. Control of sliding watertight doors not power operated
Division 10 Watertight doors -- signals and communications
46. Watertight doors — indicators
47. Watertight doors — communications
Division 11 Openings in the shell plating below the margin line
48. Openings — generally
49. Side scuttles not to be capable of being opened
50. Side scuttle to be fitted with watertight deadlight
51. Position of side scuttles
52. Discharges and inlets to prevent accidental admission of water
53. Material for cock or valve
54. Inlets or discharges connected with machinery
55. Discharge pipes
56. Bolt connecting cock etc to shell plating to be countersunk etc
57. Watertight decks to be drained
58. Ash-shoots, rubbish-shoots etc
59. Gangway ports

Division 12 -- Bulkhead deck

60. Openings above the bulkhead deck
61. Bulkhead deck etc to be weathertight
62. Openings in weathertight deck
Division 13 Deadlights
63. Deadlights
Division 14 Subdivision load lines
64. Assignment of subdivision load lines
65. Marking of subdivision load lines
66. Dimensions etc of subdivision load line marks

PART III--BILGE PUMPING ARRANGEMENTS IN PASSENGER SHIPS
Division 1 Number and type of bilge pumps

67. Number and types of bilge pumps in Class I ships
68. Number and types of bilge pumps in Class II ships
69. Certain pumps may be deemed to be bilge pumps
70. Supply of pumps for emergency
Division 2 Requirements for bilge pumps and bilge suctions
71. Situation of bilge pumps
72. Priming of bilge pumps
73. Bilge pumps to be capable of draining all watertight compartments
74. Power bilge pumps
75. Diameter of suctions of independent power bilge pumps
76. Arrangement of direct suctions in machinery space
77. Flexible suction hose in stokehold
78. Main-engine circulating pumps to be connected with machinery space
79. Emergency bilge suction
80. One main-engine circulating pump to be fitted with direct discharge overboard
81. Spindles of a sea inlet
82. Hand-operated bilge pumps
Division 3 Arrangement of bilge pipes
83. Pipes for draining cargo spaces
84. Material of bilge pipes
85. Positioning etc of bilge suction pipes
Division 4 Diameter of bilge suction pipes
86. Interpretation
87. Diameter of main bilge suction pipes
88. Diameter of branch bilge suction pipes
Division 5 Precautions against flooding through bilge pipes
89. Arrangement of bilge and ballast pumping systems
90. Connection of bilge pipe with bilge pump
91. Valve in bilge distribution box
92. Provision of lock-up valves or blank flanges
93. Operating instructions to be displayed
94. Flooding through bilge suction pipes to be prevented

Division 6 -- Bilge valves, cocks etc

95. Arrangement of distribution boxes, valves, cocks etc
96. Valves etc in bilge system to be operated from above bulkhead deck
97. Operating instructions to be displayed
Division 7 Bilge mud boxes and strum boxes
98. Bilge mud boxes
99. Bilge strum boxes
Division 8 Sounding pipes
100. Sounding arrangements
101. Sounding pipes

PART IV--ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND INSTALLATIONS IN PASSENGER SHIPS
Division 1 General

102. Emergency conditions
103. Safety precautions
Division 2 Main generating sets
104. Provision of main generating sets
105. Main generating sets to operate during flooding
Division 3 Emergency electrical installations
106. Emergency electrical installation
107. Source of electrical power for emergency electrical installation
Division 4 Distribution systems
108. Open-type switchboards
109. Hull return not to be used
110. Two or more generating sets operating at same time
111. Electrically operated sprinkler systems
112. Separation of main and emergency feeder cables
Division 5 Miscellaneous electrical precautions
113. Exposed metal parts
114. Portable lamps
115. Protection against fire
116. Protection against chafing
117. Protection against overload
118. Protection against explosion
119. Junction and outlet boxes
120. Lighting fittings
121. Lighting circuits
122. Space heaters
123. Accumulator batteries
124. Spare parts and tools

PART V--FIRE PROTECTION IN PASSENGER SHIPS
Division 1 General

125. Interpretation
126. Testing of specimens of divisions
127. Exemptions
128. General
Division 2 Methods of fire protection
129. Methods of fire protection
130. Exemptions
Division 3 Structure of ship
131. Use of steel construction
132. Hull, superstructure and deck-houses
133. Accommodation spaces
Division 4 Openings in A class divisions
134. Piercing not to affect fire resistance
135. Trunkways to be fitted with dampers etc
136. Openings in A class divisions
137. Doors in A class divisions
Division 5 Protection of stairways
138. Stairways and stairway enclosures
Division 6 Protection of vertical trunks
139. General
140. Lift trunks
141. Light and air trunks
142. Other trunks
Division 7 Protection of control stations
143. Control stations
144. Radiotelegraph rooms
Division 8 Protection of store rooms etc
145. Bulkheads of galley, store room etc
146. Inflammable stores
Division 9 Deck sheathing
147. Deck sheathing
Division 10 Ventilation systems
148. Air supply and exhaust systems
149. Controls for ventilation systems
150. Controls outside machinery spaces
151. Exemptions
Division 11 Miscellaneous items of fire protection
152. Enclosed air spaces
153. Concealed and inaccessible spaces
154. Low flame spread surfaces
155. Paints etc not to have nitro-cellulose base
156. Overboard scuppers etc not to be made of lead
157. Pipes penetrating divisions
158. Use of wood in galleys etc to be restricted
159. Windows etc in accommodation spaces
160. Windows in machinery spaces
Division 12 Means of escape
161. Means of escape from passenger etc spaces
162. Means of escape from machinery spaces

PART VI--BOILERS AND MACHINERY IN PASSENGER SHIPS
Division 1 General

163. General
164. Communication with engine-room
165. Location of emergency installations
Division 2 Boilers etc
166. Safety valves to be provided
167. Boiler etc to withstand maximum working stresses
168. Cleaning and inspection
169. Hydraulic pressure test for boiler or superheater
170. Hydraulic pressure test for economisers
171. Hydraulic pressure test for mounting
Division 3 Boiler feed systems
172. Boiler to have two feed systems
173. Overpressure to be prevented
174. Oil in feed water to be intercepted
175. Check valve etc to be of efficient design etc
176. Feed pipe to be supported
Division 4 Steam pipe systems
177. Steam pipes and fittings to withstand maximum working stresses
178. Hydraulic pressure test for steam pipe or fitting
179. Steam pipe not to be subjected to excessive stresses
180. Steam pipe to be drained
181. Steam pipe to be fitted with reducing valve etc
Division 5 Machinery
182. Governor etc to be fitted
183. Steam to be shut off if oil system fails
184. Hydraulic pressure test for nozzle box
185. Hydraulic pressure test for steam casing
186. Hydraulic pressure test for engine cylinder
187. Compression ignition engines
188. Machinery operated by oil with low flash point not to be fitted
Division 6 Shafts
189. Shafts
Division 7 Air pressure systems
190. Starting air compressors
191. Hydraulic pressure test for cylinder
192. Hydraulic pressure test for cooler
193. Hydraulic pressure test for cooling passages and cooler casings
194. Relief valves
195. Additional starting air compressor
196. Air receivers required
197. Air receivers to withstand maximum working stresses
198. Hydraulic pressure test for air receiver
199. Air bottle to be of efficient design etc
200. Fittings for a receiver or bottle
201. Air pressure pipe and fittings
202. Air pressure pipe to be properly supported
203. Air pressure pipe to be free from oil etc
204. Reducing valve etc to be fitted to air pressure pipe
Division 8 Engine cooling systems
205. Pumps to be provided for cooling water
206. Strainers for sea-water suctions
207. Provision for inspecting cooling system etc
208. Exhaust pipe etc to be cooled
Division 9 Lubricating oil systems
209. Pumps to be provided for circulating oil
210. Strainers
211. Provision for inspecting lubrication system
Division 10 Oil-fuel installations (boilers and machinery)
212. Interpretation
213. Application
214. Double-bottom compartment to be fitted with a watertight centre division
215. Oil-fuel tanks
216. Oil-fuel tanks etc to be isolated from water-ballast tanks etc
217. Oil separation equipment
218. Transfer of oil fuel from one tank to another
219. Escape of oil overboard to be prevented
220. Coffer dam to be fitted
221. Sounding equipment for oil-fuel tank
222. Equipment to prevent overpressure in an oil-fuel tank
223. Drain to be of self-closing type
224. Oil-fuel filling stations
225. Oil-filling pipe lines
226. Oil pressure pipes
227. Oil pipes other than oil pressure pipes
228. Oil pipe joints
229. Steam-heating pipes
230. Suction pipe to be fitted with valve etc
231. Oil-fuel levelling pipe to be fitted with valve etc
232. Oil-tank filling pipe to be fitted with non-return valve etc
233. Master valve at furnace fronts
234. Oil-fuel valves
235. Oil-fuel pumps
236. Stopping of fans and closing of openings
237. Oil-fuel units to be provided
238. Overpressure in oil-fuel unit
239. Hydraulic pressure test for oil-fuel unit parts
240. Exhaust drains where steam is used for heating oil fuel
241. Save-alls or gutters under oil-fuel pump etc
242. Save-alls and gutters in way of furnace mouths
243. Oil-fuel separators
244. Dampers fitted to funnels etc to be capable of being secured in open position
Division 11 Oil-fuel installations (cooking ranges)
245. Flash point for oil fuel for cooking ranges
246. Oil supply for cooking ranges
Division 12 Ventilation
247. Space for oil-fuel tank to be ventilated
Division 13 Stores, spare gear and tools
248. Stores etc
Division 14 Means of going astern
249. Means for reversing propelling machinery
250. Testing of means of reversing
Division 15 Steering gear
251. Steering gear
252. Main steering gear
253. Movement of rudder
254. Exemption from provision of auxiliary steering gear
255. Auxiliary steering gear
256. Auxiliary steering gear where rudder stock over nine inches
257. Indicators
258. Electrically operated steering gear

PART VII--BULWARKS IN PASSENGER SHIPS

259. Guard rails, stanchions and bulwarks

PART VIII--PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CARGO SHIPS

260. Interpretation
261. Application of certain regulations
262. Hull return not to be used
263. Means of escape — cargo ships
264. Steering gear
265. Electrically operated steering gear
266. Emergency electrical installation in cargo ships
267. Emergency electrical installation in cargo ships under 500 tons
268. Electrical devices
269. General requirements with regard to structural strength and equipment
269A. Requirements with respect to doors in structural bulkheads
269B. Watertight bulkheads in cargo ships
270. Bulkheads
271. Deck coverings
272. Power ventilation
273. Pipes

PART IX--EQUIVALENTS

274. Equivalents
FIRST SCHEDULE Calculation of permissible length of watertight
SECOND SCHEDULE Stability in damaged condition
THIRD SCHEDULE Construction of watertight bulkheads
FOURTH SCHEDULE Methods of fire protection

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