Section 9(1) in The Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Rules, 1960
(1)In every ship to which these rules apply, the crew accommodation and the means of excess thereto and egress there from shall be so arranged and constructed and situated in such apposition as to ensure.(a)the protection of the crew against injury to the greatest practicable extent;(b)the protection of the crew accommodation against the weather and the sea;(c)the insulation of the crew accommodation from heat and cold;(d)the protection of the crew accommodation against moisture due to condensation;(e)the exclusion from the crew accommodation of effluvia originating in other spaces in the ship; and(f)the exclusion from the crew accommodation, to the greatest practicable extent, of noise originating in other spaces in the ship.
