Section 111
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(1)
The Minister/with the approval of His Majesty may, in relation to any ships to which this section applies, make regulations (hereinafter referred to as the "regula-tions for life-saving appliances") with respect to all or any of the following matters, namely
(a)
the arranging of ships into classes, having regard to the services in which they are employed, to the nature and duration of the voyage, and to the number of persons carried;
(b)
the number, description, and mode of con-struction of the boats, life rafts, line-throwing ap-pliances, life-jackets, and lifebuoys to be carried by ships, according to the classes in which the ships are arranged;
(c)
the equipment to be carried by any such boats and rafts and the methods to be provided to get the boats and other life-saving appliances into the water, including oil for use in stormy weather;
(d)
the provision in ships of a proper supply of lights inextinguishable in water, and fitted for attachment to lifebuoys;
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(e)
the quantity, quality and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on board ships, either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life rafts, life-jackets and lifebuoys;
(f)
the position and means of securing the boats, life rafts, life-jackets and lifebuoys and buoyant apparatus;
(g)
the marking of the boats, life rafts and buoyant apparatus so as to show their dimensions and the number of persons authorised to be carried on them;
(h)
the manning of the lifeboats and the qual-ifications and certificates of lifeboat men;
(i)
the provisions to be made for mustering the persons on board, and for embarking them in the boats (including provision for the lighting of, and the means of ingress to and engress from, different parts of the ship);
(j)
the provision of suitable means situated out-side the engine-room whereby any discharge of water into the boats can be prevented;
(k)
the assignment of specific duties to each member of the crew in the event of emergency;
(l)
the methods to be adopted and the ap-pliances to be carried in ships for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire;
(m)
the provision in ships of plans or other in-formation relating to the means of preventing, de-tecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of fire;
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(n)
the practice in ships of boat-drills and fire-drills;
( o) the provision in ships of means of making effective distress-signals by day and by night;
(p)
the provision, in ships engaged on voyages in which pilots are likely to be embarked, of suit-able pilot-ladders, and of ropes, lights and other appliances designed to make the use of such lad-ders safe; and
( q) the examination and maintenance at inter-vals to be prescribed by the regulations of any ap-pliances or equipment required by the rules to be carried, and different provisions may be made in respect of different classes of ships and for ships of the same description in different circun1stances.
(2)
This section applies to -
(a)
Brunei ships; and
(b)
all other ships while they are within the wa-ters of Brunei.
(3)
It shall be the duty of the owner and master of every ship to which this section applies to see that his ship is provided, in accordance with the regulations for life-saving appliances, with such of those appliances as, having regard to the nature of the service on which the ship is employed, and the avoidance of undue encurrtbrance of the ship's deck, are best adopted for securing the safety of her crew and passengers, and that such appliances are kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use.
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