PREFACE Regulations for the Navy Part I are issued under the authority of the Government of India and supersede the corresponding provisions of the Regulations for the Navy Part I, 1965 (non-Statutory). These Regulations contain a comprehensive compilation of 44 Chapters on regulations of an administrative character. Flag Officers, Commanding Officers and all other Officers are responsible for ensuring that the Regulations contained in this volume are strictly adhered to by them and by all those serving under their Command. These Regulations, being non-Statutory, are supplemental to the relevant statutory provisions, wherever they exist, and do not supplant them. All officers are expected to interpret these Regulations with due regard to the customs and traditions of the Service. In these Regulations no attempt has been made to provide for obvious exceptions or for matters of detail, on which administrative and departmental orders/ instructions of authorities subordinate to the Government of India are either currently in force or may be issued in future. Such orders and instructions shall, however, be deemed supplementary to and in amplification of these Regulations. As such, if any of these orders/instructions are at variance to these Regulations, the latter shall prevail. [ N.N.VOHRA ] Secretary to the Government of India Ministry of Defence 1st May, 1991 New Delhi Part I NON-STATUTORY CONTENTS Subject Chapter Page No. 1. General Regulations 1 2. Instructions to Administrative Authorities and Senior Officer 16 Section I – General Service 16 Section II – An Area 33 Section III – Foreign relations 35 3. Instructions to Captains 40 Section I – General 40 Section II – Fitting out and Maintenance 47 Section III – Organisation 51 Section IV – NBCD Organisation, Ventilation, Watertight Integrity and Fire 55 Section V – Armament 60 Section VI – Logistics Duties 63 Section VII – Loss of Ship 66 Section VIII – Mails – Arrangements for Delivery and Despatch in IN Ship and Establishments 67 Section IX – Naval Air Arm 69 4. Instructions to the Executive Officer 75 5. The Engineering Department 76 Section I – Instructions to engineer Officer on the Staff 76 Section II- Instructions to Engineer Officer 78 Section III – Instructions to the Air Engineer Officer 83 Section IV – Instructions to the Constructor Officer 86 Section V – General 89 Section VI –Fuelling 91 6. The Electrical Department 93 Section I – Instructions to Electrical Officers on the Staff 93 Section II – Instructions to the Electrical Officer 94 Section III – Instructions to the Air Electrical Officers 96 Section IV – General 98 Section V – Weapon Systems and Instructions to Weapons Maintenance Officer 99 7. The Logistics Department 101 8. The Medical Department 108 Section I – Organisation 108 Section II – Instructions to Medical Officers 108 Section III – Instructions to Dental Officers 117 Section IV – Instructions to Nursing Officers 119 Section V – Instructions to Special Duties List Officers (Medical) and Medical Assistants 121 Section VI – General 122 9. The Education Department 126 Section I – Organisation 126 Section II – Duties and Responsibilities 126 Section III – Instructions to Education Officers 127 10. Instructions to Officers 130 Section I – Officers in General 130 Section II – Divisional Officers 132 Section III – Officers of the Watch 135 Section IV – Officers Quarters 140 11. Instructions to the anti Submarine Warfare Officers 142 Section I – The Anti Submarine Warfare Officer 142 Section II – Special Duties List (ASW) Officer 147 12. Instructions to Officers Qualified in Diving Duties 149 13. Navigation and Direction 152 Section I – Instructions to NAVIGATION direction Officers 152 Section II – General 159 Section III – Pilotage 166 Section IV – Grounding, Collision and Definitions of the Navigating Officer and the Direction Officer 169 14. Instructions to Gunnery Officer 174 Section I – The Gunnery Officer 174 Section II – The Special Duties List (Gunner) Officer 179 Section III – The Special Duties List (Air Engineer) Officer (SDAE) (Borne/Nominated for Explosive Accounting Duties) 181 15. Instructions to the Signal Communication Officer 183 16. Instructions to the Special Duties List (Boatswain) Officer 188 17. Instructions to Shipwright Officer 190 18. Instructions to the Physical Training Officer 196 19. Instructions to the Provost Staff 198 20. The Hydrographic Department 202 21. The Naval Air Arm 204 Section I – Instructions to Naval Air Arm Officers 204 Section II – Special and Passenger Flights 215 Section III – Aircraft Explosives 220 22. Meteorology and Oceanography 222 Section I – General 222 Section II – Instructions to Meteorological and Oceanological (METOC) Officers 225 23. Photography 228 Section I – Instructions to Photographic Officer 228 Section II- General 229 24. Officers – Specialisation and Courses 231 Section I – General 231 Section II – Officers of the Executive Branch 235 Section III – Officers of the Branches other than Executive 236 Section IV – Adhoc Specialist and Advanced Courses for Officers of all Branches 238 25. Personal Records 239 Section I – General Instructions 239 Section II – Officers 244 Section III – Sailors 248 26. Uniforms, Decorations and Medals 261 Section I – Uniform and Dress 261 Section II – Decorations and Medals 263 Section III – Foreign Decorations 273 27. Messing and Accommodation 275 Section I – Messing - Officers 275 Section II – Cabins 282 Section III – Messing of Ship’s Company 285 28. Canteen and Non-Public Funds 288 Section I – Canteens 288 Section II – Non-Public Funds 291 29. Births, Deaths, Injuries, Inquests etc. 295 30. Conveyance of Passengers, Mail, Cargo etc. 299 Section I – Passages – General Instructions 299 Section II – Passages by Transport or Merchant Ship 304 Section III – Conveyance of Passengers, Cargo and Mails in IN Ships and Fleet Auxiliaries 307 Section IV – Air Travel 309 31. Conferences and Visits 311 32. Leave for Officers and Sailors – General Instructions 315 Section I – General 315 Section II – Officers 315 Section III – Sailors 316 33. General Legal Matters 318 34. Official Secrets and Publicity 326 35. Quarantine and Customs Regulations 331 Section I – Quarantine 331 Section II – Customs Regulations 332 36 Salvage Services – General 336 37. Correspondence and Returns 345 Section I – Correspondence 345 Section II – Returns 351 38. Stores and Equipment – General Instructions 352 Section I – General Regulations 352 Section II – Purchases 356 Section III – Losses 356 39. Victualling, Clothing, and Mess Traps – General Instructions 357 Section I – General Regulations 357 Section II – Victualling 358 Section III – Clothing 360 40. Bands 362 41. Inventions, Patents and Improvement Funds 370 Section I – Inventions and Patents 370 Section II – Improvement Funds 372 42. Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 373 43. Tests, Trials, Surveys and Maintenance of Material 403 Section I – Hull and General 403 Section II – Gunnery 413 Section III – Underwater Weapons 414 Section IV – Minelaying and Minesweeping Gear 415 Section V – Engineering 415 Section VI – Electrical 416 Section VII – Visual Signalling Equipment 419 Section VIII – Anchors, Chain Cable, Steelwire Rope, Slings, Rigging,etc 419 Section IX – Cranes and Lifts 421 Section X – Boats and Floats 422 Section XI – Articles under trial 423 44. Repairs, Defects, Docking, Alterations and Additions 424 Section I – Repairs and Defects 424 Section II – Docking 430 Section III – Alterations and Additions 432 APPENDICES Subject Appendix No. Pages 1. Regulations relating to the possession of Private Arms by Officers and Sailors 436 2. Dispersal of Unlawful Assemblies Extracts from relevant Acts 443 3. Forms of Release from Claims for use In connection with Service Aircraft 450 4. Form for submitting full description of Inventions 454 5. List of Financial Documents 455 6. Standard Form of Salvage Agreement 464 CONCORDANCES Subject Concordance No. page 1. Overall Chapterwise Concordance from Old Regs Navy to New Regs Navy 469 2. Regulationwise Concordance from New Regs; Navy to Old Regs Navy 471 RECORD OF AMENDMENTS Sl.No. No.of & Subject of the Authority Initials & Date Regulation Amended CHAPTER 1 GENERAL REGULATIONS 0101. Observance and Enforcement of the Regulations, etc., Every officer shall make himself acquainted with and shall duly observe and obey, and so far as he is able enforce the due execution of the Navy Act, the Regulations made there under and all orders issued by the Government, the Chief of the Naval Staff, Administrative Authority or his superior officer, and shall further conform himself in all respects to the established customs and practices of the Indian Navy. 0102. Promulgation of Navy Order. The Commanding Officer, shall ensure that any new orders concerning the ship’s company are read to their sailors by the divisional officers and copies are displayed in some accessible place for at least a week. When such orders affect particular duties, care is to be taken to ensure that the sailors concerned are thoroughly instructed as to their contents. 0103. General Application of Regulations. Although for convenience of reference these regulations are divided into chapters, it shall be distinctly understood that every direction contained therein shall be considered as applicable to all whom it may concern, notwithstanding that it may appear in a chapter addressed to a particular class of officers. 0104. Benefits may be Varied or Cancelled. Except where provision is, or may hereafter be, expressly made