NEW CLASS B, C AND D AND EXISTING CLASS B SHIPS:

Windows shall not be fitted in machinery space boundaries. This does not preclude the use of glass in control rooms within the machinery spaces. Means of control shall be provided for: opening and closure of skylights, closure of openings in funnels which normally allow exhaust ventilation, and closure of ventilator dampers; permitting the release of smoke; closing power-operated doors or actuating release mechanism on doors other than power-operated watertight doors; stopping ventilating fans; and stopping forced and induced draught fans, oil fuel transfer pumps, oil fuel unit pumps and other similar fuel pumps. Other similar fuel pumps means for ships constructed on or after 1 January 2003 lubricating oil service pumps, thermal oil circulating pumps and oil separators. However paragraph .6 of this regulation need not apply to oily water separators. The controls required in paragraph .5 and Regulation II-2/A/10.2.5 shall be located outside the space concerned, where they will not be cut off in the event of fire in the space they serve. Such controls and the controls for any required fire-extinguishing system shall be situated at one control position or grouped in as few positions as possible. Such positions shall have a safe access from the open deck. When access to any machinery space of category A is provided at a low level from an adjacent shaft tunnel, there shall be provided in the shaft tunnel, near the watertight door, a light steel fire-screen door operable from each side.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-10 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.