Section 2(q) in The Merchant Shipping (Cargo Ship Construction And Survey) Rules, 1974
(q)"standard fire test" means a test in which a specimen of the material to be tested with a surface area of not less than 4.65 sq. metres and height not less than 2.44 metres, is exposed in a test furnace to a series of time temperature relationships approximately as follows, namely :-(i)at the end of the first five minutes 538°C(ii)at the end of the first ten minutes 704°C(iii)at the end of the first thirty minutes 843°C(iv)at the end of the first sixty minutes 927°C
