Life Saving Equipment Regulations

20 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a Class IX ship that is not a tanker and is a Safety Convention ship or a ship engaged on a foreign voyage shall carry

• (a) Class 1 lifeboats not less than 7.3 m in length, each under davits, in accordance with paragraph (b) or (c), but where a ship is making home-trade IV or minor waters II voyages, the lifeboats may be of Class 2;

• (b) subject to paragraph (c),

  • (i) on each side of the ship, one or more lifeboats of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate the complement of which one shall be a motor lifeboat if the ship is of 1,600 tons, gross tonnage, or over, but no motor lifeboat need be carried on a ship that does not go more than 20 miles from land,

  • (ii) in the case of a ship described in subsection (2) and a ship, other than a tug, that goes more than 20 miles from land, one or more life rafts of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate 50 per cent of the complement, and

  • (iii) in the case of a tug, one or more life rafts of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate the complement;

• (c) if such ship is a whale factory, or fish processing or canning factory ship,

  • (i) either

    • (A) lifeboats, including one motor lifeboat, of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate 50 per cent of the complement on each side of the ship, or

    • (B) lifeboats, including one motor lifeboat, of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate at least 37 1/2 per cent of the complement on each side of the ship and life rafts, capable of being launched by launching devices, of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate the portion of the complement not accommodated in the lifeboats and launching devices sufficient to launch all the life rafts required under this clause, fully loaded, in 30 minutes in calm conditions,

  • (ii) life rafts, or additional life rafts, capable of being launched by launching devices if such devices are provided under subparagraph (i), of aggregate capacity sufficient to accommodate 50 per cent of the complement,

  • (iii) on each side of the ship, an approved boat that is not over 8.5 m in length and may count towards the requirements of subparagraph (i) if it is a Class 1 lifeboat, and

  • (iv) notwithstanding subsection 2(1) of Part I of Schedule IX, gravity-type davits for the launching of lifeboats and for the launching of emergency boats that, pursuant to subparagraph (iii), are counted towards the requirements of subparagraph (i);

• (d) eight lifebuoys;

• (e) the following supply of lifejackets, each fitted with a whistle and a personal locator light:

  • (i) one for each member of the complement, and

  • (ii) where the ship is a tug, at least two stowed in the wheelhouse and two stowed in the engine room;

• (f) one immersion suit, fitted with a whistle and a personal locator light, for each member of the complement;

• (g) the following survival craft VHF radiotelephone apparatus stowed so that they are readily accessible for immediate use:

  • (i) two, if the ship is 300 tons or over but under 500 tons gross tonnage, and

  • (ii) three, if the ship is 500 tons gross tonnage or over;

• (h) for each life raft,

  • (i) where the ship is engaged on a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage, Class II, a Class C emergency pack set out in section 3 of Schedule I,

  • (ii) if the ship is engaged on a voyage not more than 20 nautical miles from shore, the Class B (Canadian) emergency pack set out in section 2.1 of Schedule I, and

  • (iii) where the ship is engaged on any other voyage, a Class A emergency pack set out in section 1 of Schedule I;

• (i) for each lifeboat, the equipment set out in section 1 of Schedule II and, for each approved boat, the equipment set out in section 2 of Schedule II;

• (j) a line-throwing appliance;

• (k) where the ship is engaged on a voyage other than a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage, Class II, the following distress signals:

  • (i) 12 rocket parachute flares, or

  • (ii) where 12 Type A distress signals were carried on April 27, 1996, those distress signals until their date of expiry;

• (l) the following SARTs:

  • (i) if the ship is 20 m or over in length but under 500 tons gross tonnage, one SART stowed so that it is readily accessible for immediate use and for placing in one of the survival craft that are launched first, and

  • (ii) if the ship is 500 tons gross tonnage or over, two SARTs stowed so that they are readily accessible for immediate use and for placing in the two survival craft that are launched first; and

• (m) [Repealed, SOR/2000-261, s. 8]

• (n) means of embarkation into survival craft.

(1.1) Despite subparagraph (1)(l)(i), a ship that is under 300 tons gross tonnage and that on March 31, 2001 was required by these Regulations to carry two Class II EPIRBs may continue to carry them instead of a SART until one of the batteries of the Class II EPIRBs needs to be replaced.

(2) Every Class IX ship that is a bulk carrier, other than a tanker, that is over 91.4 m in length and makes voyages in the St. Lawrence River east of the Montreal entrance to the St. Lawrence Seaway shall include in its life saving equipment inflatable life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate half of the complement.

(3) Where some of the persons carried on a ship described in subsection (2) are berthed in the forward part of the ship, inflatable life rafts of sufficient capacity to accommodate all of those persons shall be stowed forward and the remaining inflatable life rafts shall be stowed aft.

(4) A ship of 150 m in length or over having no amidships superstructure shall carry, in addition to the life rafts required by subsection (1), a life raft that is capable of accommodating at least six persons and that is stowed as far forward as is reasonable and practicable.

(5) [Repealed, SOR/96-218, s. 17]