Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968 - REG 29

(1)

Where a tunnel in a ship, other than a tunnel running beneath the inner bottom, if any, of the ship, passes through a watertight bulkhead, the tunnel shall be watertight.

(2)

Where a tunnel required by the last preceding subregulation to be watertight is intended for use as a passage at sea:

(a)

the means of access at one end of the tunnel shall be through a watertight trunkway extending to a height sufficient to permit access above the margin line; and

(b)

the means of access at the other end of the tunnel shall be through a watertight door.

(3)

A tunnel shall not extend through the first watertight subdivision bulkhead abaft the collision bulkhead.