Chapter:	369E	Title:	MERCHANT SHIPPING (MINIMUM PASSENGER SPACE) REGULATIONS	Gazette Number:
Regulation:	25	Heading:	Electrical fittings, artifical and emergency lighting	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) In every ship to which these regulations apply other than-

(a) any ship engaged exclusively in the river trade area; and
(b) any ship of less than 1000 tons gross engaged in the eastern trade area,

(a) provided throughout the ship and, in particular, upon every deck from which lifeboats or liferafts are embarked;
(b) operated from the ship's main generating plant; and
(c) so arranged that power may also be supplied From the emergency source of power.

(a) engaged exclusively in the river trade area; or
(b) of less than 1000 tons gross engaged in the eastern trade area,

(i) provided in a position above the uppermost continuous deck or raised quarter deck and outside the machinery casings, a self-contained emergency source of electric power, so arranged as to ensure that it will function in the event of a fire or the failure, for some other reason, of the main electrical installation;
(ii) installed electric lighting of all alleyways, stairways and exits so as to ensure that access of all persons on board the ship to the launching stations and stowage positions of all lifeboats and liferafts is not impeded; and
(iii) installed electric lighting of the launching gear and of the lifeboat and Iiferaft launching appliances, where provided, and of the lifeboats and liferafts which they serve.