Regulation 31 Cold store rooms and refrigerating equipment

Cold store rooms shall, where practicable, be provided for the storage of perishable provisions for the crew. If it is not practicable to provide cold store rooms suitable alternative storage facilities for those provisions shall be provided.

The cold store rooms or other facilities provided shall be adequate in size having regard to the number of persons in the crew and the period likely to elapse between successive replenishments of stores.

Access to every cold store room shall be from a passageway, galley, mess room or pantry, or from another cold store room.

Every cold store room shall be served by refrigerating machinery. The space in which that machinery is situated shall be separated from all other parts of the crew accommodation by bulkheads complying with the requirements of regulation 7; it shall be adequately provided with supply and exhaust ventilation. Access to that space shall, wherever practicable, be by means of a hinged door from the open deck. If the door opens into any part of the crew accommodation, the door shall be of steel, self-closing and gastight.

Refrigerating machinery making use of ammonia or methyl chloride as a refrigerant shall not be installed.