Definitions

For the purposes of this Part“accommodation spaces” means those spaces used for public spaces, corridors, lavatories, cabins, offices, hospitals, cinemas, games and hobby rooms, pantries containing no cooking appliances and similar spaces; “bulkhead deck” means the uppermost deck to which the transverse watertight bulkheads are carried; “control stations” means those spaces in which the ship’s radio or main navigating equipment or the emergency source of power is located or where the fire detection or fire control equipment is centralized; Merchant Ships (Registration) 163 “low flame spread” means that the surface thus described will adequately restrict the spread of flame, this being determined to the satisfaction of the Administration or recognized organization by an established test procedure; “non-combustible material” means a material which neither burns nor gives off flammable vapours in sufficient quantity for self-ignition when heated to approximately 750°C this being determined to the satisfaction of the Administration or recognized organization by an established test procedure. Any other material is a combustible material; “oil fuel unit” is the equipment used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to an oil fired boiler, or equipment used for the preparation for delivery of heated oil to an internal combustion engine, and includes any oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters dealing with oil at a pressure of more than 0.18 N/ mm2; “public spaces” means those portions of the accommodation spaces which are used for halls, dining rooms, lounges and similar permanently enclosed spaces; “service spaces” means those spaces used for galleys, pantries containing cooking appliances, lockers and store-rooms, workshops other than those forming part of the machinery spaces, and similar spaces and trunks to such spaces; “steel or other equivalent material” means any non-combustible material which, by itself or due to insulation provided, has structural and integrity properties equivalent to steel at the end of the applicable exposure to the standard fire test (e.g., aluminium alloy with appropriate insulation).