Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968 - REG 12

(1)

A ship the length of which is one hundred and sixty-five feet or more but less than two hundred feet shall be fitted with a watertight double bottom extending from the machinery space to, or as near as is practicable to, the collision bulkhead.

(2)

Subject to the next succeeding subregulation, a ship the length of which is two hundred feet or more shall be fitted with a watertight double bottom extending from, or from as near as is practicable to, the collision bulkhead to, or as near as is practicable to, the afterpeak bulkhead.

(3)

The last preceding subregulation does not require a double bottom to be fitted in the machinery space of a ship the length of which is less than two hundred and forty-nine feet.