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Additional Deductions allowed by the Suez Canal Authority:

The SCA allows the following spaces to be included in the deductions specified in Art. 12 of
the Regulations for Measurement of Tonnage, provided that the deductions do not, in the

(1)
aggregate, exceed 5 % of the gross tonnage and be marked clearly and permanently so as to
show the purpose for which they are exclusively appropriate:

A- Spaces for the exclusive use of officers, engineers and crew:

- Master's accommodation.
- Officer's smoking room.

- Chief engineer's and Chief officer’s dayrooms and/or offices.
- Doctor's and dentist s cabins (if they are occupied by the doctors and dentists for whom
they are intended).

- Consulting rooms.
- Hospital.

- Infirmary.
- Surgery or operating room.

- Chemist's laboratory.
- Cabins of wireless operators (if utilized).

- Stewards cabins (if the stewards are solely employed for the officers, engineers or
crew).
- Cabins of the engineers’ storekeepers and water tenders.

- Mess rooms. (No deduction is allowed for officers’ messroom in vessels having
passenger accommodation which are not also provided with a passengers’ messroom).

- Bath-rooms. (With the exception of such bath-rooms as are available for passengers
when no bath- rooms for their exclusive use is provided).

- Lavatories.
- Library.
- Bar.

- Gallery, cook-house.
- Pantry.

- Scullery.
- Bakery (only on vessels having no passenger accommodation).
- Laundry.

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1 ) Maximum raised to 10% from 1 April 1948.
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