{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-small-ships-regulations-1998/regulation-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-small-ships-regulations-1998/regulation-8A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1011",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Small Ships) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-fire-protection-small-ships-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/8A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Machinery spaces other than Category A",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 1(9) (application) and paragraph (2), in every passenger ship to which regulation 8 does not apply there shall be provided for the protection of any machinery space at least one of the following fixed fire-extinguishing systems—\n(a) a fixed pressure water-spraying system;\n(b) a fixed gas fire-extinguishing system;\n(c) a high expansion foam system;\n(d) for ships built before 25th May 1980, a foam fire-extinguishing system; or\n(e) any other type of fixed fire-extinguishing system approved by the Secretary of State.\n(2) In a ship of less than 24 metres in length where machinery spaces consist of machinery covered by a boxed housing, the requirement in paragraph (1) may be satisfied by the provision of a fixed fire-extinguishing system that may comprise an approved portable extinguisher (of a suitable size and type for the space being protected) permanently attached to that housing and available to discharge into that space.\n(3) Where paragraph (2) applies, the arrangement for fire-extinguishing shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8A inserted (29.12.2022) by The Merchant Shipping (Safety Standards for Passenger Ships on Domestic Voyages) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1269), regs. 1(b), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1011/regulation/8A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:32:26.653172+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}