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carry, in the manner provided in Rule B (1) and section (1) of this
rule (D), lifeboats in such numbers and capacity as would be sufficient
to accommodate the total number of persons carried, or which the
ship is certified to carry, whichever number is the greater, they may
allow additional approved buoyant apparatus to be carried in lieu of
lifeboats, sufficient for those persons for whom accommodation is not
provided in the lifeboats : Provided that no buoyant apparatus shall
be allowed on a ship of this class in lieu of a lifeboat required by
these rules unless the total cubic capacity of the lifeboats is at least
equal to the greater of the two following amounts :—
(a) Seventy-five per cent. of the total capacity required to
accommodate all the persons carried.
(b) The minimum capacity required by column C of the table
in Appendix I.

(3) The master or owner of a ship of this class claiming to carry
on any voyage fewer lifeboats, or, in the case of a ship coming under
the provisions of Rule D (2), fewer lifeboats and approved buoyant
apparatus, than will provide sufficient accommodation for all the
persons for which the ship is certified must declare before the Collector
or other officer of Customs, before the time of clearance, that the life-
boats, or the lifeboats and approved buoyant apparatus, as the case
may be, actually carried will be sufficient to accommodate all persons
who will be carried at any time during the voyage to foreign ports
and the voyage back to New Zealand, and that in addition approved
buoyant apparatus will be carried sufficient for 25 per cent. of all such
persons.

In the case of a ship coming under the provisions of Rule D (2)
and claiming to carry fewer lifeboats and approved buoyant appa-
ratus than will provide accommodation for all the persons for which
the ship is certified, a further declaration must be made by the master
or owner that the total cubic capacity of the lifeboats actually carried
is not less than is required by Rule D (2) : Provided that no greater
number of lifeboats need be carried than is sufficient to accommodate
all the persons carried.

Rule E.—(1) Where the number of lifeboats is more than ten,
one of them shall be fitted with an approved wireless-telegraphy in-
stallation. Where the number of lifeboats is more than fifteen, one
shall be a motor-boat fitted with an approved wireless-telegraphy
installation complying with the provisions of General Rule 4 ; and
where the number is more than twenty, two of the lifeboats shall be
motor-boats so fitted. All such motor-boats shall be fitted with
searchlights.

(2) The Department may, at their discretion, upon the applica-
tion of an owner, allow a greater number of motor-lifeboats to be
carried if they are satisfied that the efficiency of the life-saving
equipment will not thereby be diminished.

Rule F.—If the ship is under 400 ft. in length, at least twelve
approved lifebuoys shall be carried ; if 400 ft. or over but under
600 ft., at least eighteen approved lifebuoys shall be carried ; if
600 ft. or over but under 800 ft., at least twenty-four approved
lifebuoys shall be carried ; and if 800 ft. or over, at least thirty
approved lifebuoys shall be carried.

Rule G.—One approved life-jacket shall be carried for each person
on board.

Rule H.—The Department may schedule certain voyages between
specified ports or places outside New Zealand as being, for the pur-
pose of these rules, voyages of a nature similar to one or other of the
classes of voyages within home-trade limits provided for in the
rules.

If a foreign-going passenger-steamer is permitted by the terms
of the passenger certificate to carry, between specified ports or places
abroad, a number of passengers in addition to the number allowed
when the ship is proceeding to sea from New Zealand and such a
voyage has been scheduled in accordance with the provisions of this
rule, that ship shall, so far as concerns the additional passengers
carried between those ports or places, comply with the rules applic-
able to the class of home-trade voyage to which the voyage has been
scheduled as similar.

CLASS II.

Rules for Foreign-going Steamships not certified to carry Passengers.

Rule A.—A ship of this class shall carry on each side of the ship
open lifeboats of Class 1 in such number and of such aggregate