Revoking Rules fixing Life-saving Appliances for Ships, and fixing others in lieu thereof.

ONSLOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, 1890.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS it is, among other things, enacted by section one hundred and sixty-nine of "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), that every ship shall be provided with efficient boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life, kept at all times fit and ready for use, and supplied with all requisites for use, sufficient in number, and of the size and description proper for such ship, according to rules which may be fixed by the Governor in Council:
And whereas it is provided by section three hundred and six of the said Act that the Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to time revoke, alter, or add to any order previously made under the said Act:
And whereas it is desirable to revoke the rules which have been fixed for defining the boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life with which ships are to be provided, and to prescribe other rules in lieu thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Right Honourable William Hillier, Earl of Onslow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby revoke the Orders in Council of the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and of the twenty-second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, fixing and prescribing rules for defining the boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life with which ships are to be provided on and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and providing that such rules shall come into force on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, respectively, and in lieu thereof doth hereby fix and prescribe the rules set forth in the Schedule hereto for defining the boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life with which ships are to be provided; and doth hereby order that these rules shall come into force on and after the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety; and doth hereby further order and declare that the rules and regulations with regard to boats, rafts, or other appliances for saving life which are at present in force under the Imperial Act known as "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," or any Acts amending the same, shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety.

SCHEDULE.

RULES.

For the purposes of these rules, British ships shall be arranged into the following classes:—

DIVISION A.—CLASS 1.—Steamships carrying emigrant passengers subject to all the provisions of the Acts of the Imperial Parliament known as "the Passengers Acts."
DIVISION A.—CLASS 2.—Foreign-going steamships having certificates of survey under "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," authorising them to carry passengers, or having passenger certificates issued by the Board of Trade or any British colony.
DIVISION A.—CLASS 3.—Steamships having certificates of survey under "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," authorising them to carry passengers anywhere within the home-trade limits, that is to say, between any ports or places in New Zealand, but not to or from the Chatham Islands, the Auckland Islands, or Campbell Island, and steamships holding passenger certificates issued by the Board of Trade, or any British possession or foreign country, which have been exempted from survey under section 200 of "The Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1877," and which carry passengers anywhere within the home-trade limits aforesaid.
DIVISION B.—CLASS 1.—Sailing-ships carrying emigrant passengers subject to all the provisions of the said "Passengers Acts."
DIVISION B.—CLASS 2.—Foreign-going sailing-ships carrying passengers, but not subject to all the provisions of the said "Passengers Acts."
DIVISION B.—CLASS 3.—Foreign-going sailing-ships not carrying passengers.
DIVISION B.—CLASS 4.—Foreign-going steamships not certified to carry passengers.
DIVISION B.—CLASS 5.—Sailing-ships carrying passengers anywhere within the home-trade limits aforesaid.

DIVISION C.—CLASS 1.—Steamships not certified to carry passengers plying anywhere within the home-trade limits aforesaid.
DIVISION C.—CLASS 2.—Sailing-ships in the same trades not carrying passengers.
DIVISION D.—CLASS 1.—Steamships having certificates authorising them to carry passengers within certain specified limits of the home trade, that is to say, on short specified passages along the coasts of New Zealand.
DIVISION D.—CLASS 2.—Steamships carrying passengers on short excursions or pleasure-trips, to sea, or in estuaries or mouths of rivers during daylight.
DIVISION D.—CLASS 3.—Steamships carrying passengers on rivers and [or] lakes, but not going to sea or into rough waters.

DIVISION A.—CLASS 1.

Rules and Table for Steamships carrying Emigrant Passengers subject to all the Provisions of the Acts of the Imperial Parliament known as "the Passengers Acts."

(a.) Ships of Division A, Class 1, shall carry boats placed under davits, fit and ready for use, and having proper appliances for getting them into the water, in number and capacity not less than prescribed by the following table; such boats shall be equipped in the manner required by, and shall be of the description defined in, the general rules appended hereto.

(b.) Masters or owners of ships of this class claiming to carry fewer boats under davits than are given in the following table must declare before the Collector or other officer of Customs, at the time of clearance, that the boats actually placed under davits are sufficient to accommodate all persons on board, allowing 10 cubic feet of boat-capacity for each adult person, or statute adult.

(c.) TABLE for DIVISION A, CLASS 1:

NOTE.—Where in ships already fitted the required cubic contents of boats placed under davits is provided, although by a smaller number of boats than the minimum required by this table, such ships shall be regarded as complying with the rules as to boats to be carried under davits.

(d.) Not less than half the number of boats placed under davits shall be boats of Section A or Section B. The remaining boats may also be of such description, or may, in the option of the shipowner, conform to Section C or Section D,