The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Large Ships) Regulations 1998

Ships carrying dangerous goods

103.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), ships constructed on or after 1st September 1984 of the following descriptions that is to say—

(a)passenger ships ; and

(b)cargo ships of 500 tons or over; which are intended,

or which contain cargo spaces which are intended, for the carriage of dangerous goods on international voyages, shall comply with the protective requirements prescribed in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1669.

(2) This regulation shall not apply to ships intended for the carriage of dangerous goods in limited quantities as referred to in section 18 of the general introduction to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken to require duplication of anything already provided in a ship in compliance with other requirements of these Regulations.