Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968 - REG 39

(1)

The frame of a watertight door shall be properly fitted to the bulkhead in which the door is situated and the jointing material between the frame and the bulkhead shall be of a type which will not deteriorate or be injured when subject to heat.

(2)

The frame of a vertically sliding watertight door shall be so constructed:

(a)

that there is no groove in the bottom of the frame in which dirt may lodge; and

(b)

if the frame is of skeleton form — that dirt cannot lodge in the frame.