Section 13(2) in The Major Port of Tuticorin (Harbour Craft) Rules, 1976
(2)Every licensed harbor craft playing within the Port shall carry as many member of life jackets as there are number of persons including passengers and crew. In addition to life jackets, craft shall carry life buoys at the rate of one for every two persons including passengers and crew, subject to minimum of two numbers of life buoys in every harbor craft. In lieu of life buoys buoyant apparatus sufficient to carry the total number of persons including passengers and crew may be provided. The life buoys and buoyant apparatus shall be of the pattern as approved by the Ministry of the Government of India dealing with the transport. All buoys and buoyant apparatus carried in the harbor craft shall be stowed to the satisfaction of the Deputy Conservator and so as to be readily accessible to the persons on Board.
