The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances for Passenger Ships of Classes III to VI (A)) Regulations 1992

Construction

2.5  The number of persons which the buoyant apparatus shall be permitted to support shall be equal to the lesser of:

2.5.1 the greatest whole number obtained by dividing by 14.5 the number of kilogrammes of iron which the apparatus is capable of supporting from its grab lines in fresh water; or

2.5.2 the greatest whole number obtained by dividing the perimeter in metres by 0.3.