Malaysia legislation
Section 152
Section 152
(a)
the arranging of ships into classes, having regard to the service in which they are employed, to the nature and duration of the voyage and to the number of persons carried;
(b)
the number and description of the boats, life-boats, life-jackets, life-rafts, line-throwing appliances and life-buoys to be carried by ships, according to the class in which the ships are arranged and to their mode of construction, and the equipments to be carried by such boats and rafts, and the methods to be provided to get such boats and other life-saving appliances into the water, which methods may include oil for use in stormy water;
(c)
the quantity, quality and description of buoyant apparatus to be carried on board ships, either in addition to or in substitution for boats, life-boats, life-rafts, life-jackets and life-buoys;
(d)
the marking of boats, life-boats, life-rafts and buoyant apparatus so as to show the dimensions thereof and the number of persons authorized to be carried thereon;
(e)
the manning of boats and life-boats, and the qualifications and certificates of life-boat men;
(f)
the provision to be made for mustering the passengers and crew and for embarking them in the boats and life-boats (including provision as to the lighting of, and as to the means of ingress to and egress from different parts of the ship);
(g)
the practising of boat drills;
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(h)
the assignment of specific duties to each member of the crew in the event of an emergency;
(i)
the methods to be adopted and the appliances to be carried for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire;
(j)
the inspection of life-saving appliances during their construction, and certification of boats, buoyant apparatus and other life-saving appliances intended to form part of the life-saving appliances of ships.
(2)
The Governor may direct that the rules for life-saving appliances shall not apply to any ship, not being a passenger ship, if –
(a)
being a British or North Borneo ship she is proved to be equipped in compliance with the rules for life-saving appliances made by the Minister with respect to such ships; or
(b)
being a ship of a foreign country in which the provisions in force relating to life-saving appliances appear to him to be as effective as the rules for life-saving appliances, on proof that those provisions are complied with in the case of that ship.
Duties of owner and master as to carrying life-saving appliances.