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with the number of persons they are permitted to accommodate, in not more 

 than thirty minutes in calm conditions. Approved launching devices so 

 provided shall, so far as practicable, be distributed equally on each side of 

 the ship and there shall never be less than one such device on each side. No 

 such devices need, however, be provided for the additional liferafts required 

 to be carried by sub-paragraph (h) (ii) of Regulation 27 of this Chapter for 

 25 per cent, of all on board, but every liferaft carried in accordance with 

 that sub-paragraph shall, where an approved launching device is provided in 

 the ship, be of a type which is capable of being launched from such a device. 



(ii) In passenger ships engaged on short international voyages, the 

 number of approved launching devices to be provided shall be at the 

 discretion of the Administration. The number of liferafts allocated to each 

 such device carried shall not be more than the number which, in the opinion 

 of the Administration, can be put into the water fully loaded with the number 

 of persons they are permitted to carry by that device in not more than 

 30 minutes in calm conditions. 



Regulation 30 



Lighting for Decks, Lifeboats, Liferafts, &c. 



{a) Provision shall be made for an electric or equivalent system of 

 lighting sufficient for all the requirements of safety in the different parts of 

 a passenger ship, and particularly for decks on which the lifeboats and 

 liferafts are stowed. The self-contained emergency source of electrical power 

 required by Regulation 25 of Chapter II shall be capable of supplying where 

 necessary this lighting system and also the lighting required by sub- 

 paragraphs (a) (ii), (h) (ii) and (b) (iii) of Regulation 19 of this Chapter. 



(b) The exit from every main compartment occupied by passengers or 

 crew shall be continuously lighted by an emergency lamp. The power for 

 these" emergency lamps shall be so arranged that they will be supplied from 

 the emergency source of power referred to in paragraph (a) of this Regulation 

 in the event of failure of the main generating plant. 



Regulation 31 



Manning of Lifeboats and Liferafts 



(fl) A deck officer or certificated lifeboatman shall be placed in charge of 

 each lifeboat and a second-in-command shall also be nominated. The person 

 in charge shall have a list of the lifeboat's crew, and shall see that the men 

 placed under his orders are acquainted with their several duties. 



(6) A man capable of working the motor shall be assigned to each motor 

 lifeboat. 



(c) A man capable of working the radio and searchlight installations 

 shall be assigned to each lifeboat carrying this equipment. 



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