Section 331: Power to make rules as to life saving and fire fighting appliances, etc

331. Power to make rules as to life saving and fire fighting appliances, etc.—(1) The Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules prescribing the life saving appliances and fire fighting appliances to be carried by every Pakistani ship going to sea from any port or place. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matter, namely:— (a) The arranging of ships into classes, having regard to the services in which they are employed, the nature and duration of the voyage and the number of persons carried ; (b) the number description, mode of construction of the boats, life-rafts, line- throwing appliances, life-jackets and life-buoys 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 the method to be provided to lower 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 in extinguishable in water and fitted for attachment to life-buoys ; (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 life buoys ; (f) the position and means of securing the boats, life-rafts, life-jackets, life-buoys and buoyant apparatus ; (g) the marking of 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 life-boats and the qualifications and certificates of life– boatmen ; (i) the provision 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 exit from, different parts of the ship) ; (j) the provision of suitable means situated outside 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 case of emergency ; (l) the methods to be adopted and the appliances to be carried in ships for the prevention, detection and extinction of fire ; (m) the provision in ships of plans and other information relating to the means of preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing outbreaks of fire ; (n) the practice in ships of boat-drills and fire-drills ; and the recording of such drills in the vessels log books ; (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 suitable pilot ladders and hoists, and of ropes, lights and other appliances designed to make the use of such ladders or hoists safe ; (q) the periodical examination and maintenance of any appliances or equipment required by any rules made under this Ordinance, to be carried by ships ; (r) the manner in which a notice given under sub-section (2) of section 330 shall be communicated to the officers of Customs ; and (s) the charging of fees for the grant of the certificate referred to in sub-section (3) of section 332, the amount of such fees and the manner in which they shall be recoverable.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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