Interpretation
"Administration" means the Director-General of the
Department of Shipping or any person or organisation authorised by the Minister
for the purposes of these Rules;
"accommodation spaces" means passenger spaces, corridors,
lavatories, cabins, offices, crew spaces, hairdressing salons, pantries not
containing cooking appliances, lockers and similar spaces;
"the Ordinance" means the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 200…;
"auxiliary steering gear" means the equipment, other than
any part of the main steering gear, necessary to steer the ship in the event of
failure of the main steering gear but not including the tiller, quadrant or
components serving the same purpose;
"bulk
carrier" means a ship which is primarily intended to carry dry cargo in
bulk, including such types as ore carriers and combination carriers.
"bulkhead deck" means the deck up to which the majority of
transverse watertight bulkheads are carried;
"cargo area" means that part of a ship which contains
cargo spaces, slop tanks and cargo pump rooms, cofferdams, ballast and void
spaces adjacent to cargo tanks and also deck areas throughout the length and
breadth of the part of the ship over such spaces;
"cargo control station" means a space from which the
loading, discharging or transferring of any cargo may be controlled;
"cargo ship" means a mechanically propelled ship which is
not a passenger ship, troop ship, pleasure vessel or fishing vessel;
"cargo pump room" means a room in which any pumps used for
loading, discharging or transferring cargoes are located;
"cargo spaces" means all spaces used for cargo, including
cargo tanks, and trunks to such spaces;
"chemical tanker" means a tanker constructed or adapted
and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquid product of a flammable nature
listed in Chapter 17 of the IGC Code;
"Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships" means the Code
annexed to IMO Resolution A.534(13) and any amendments thereto or replacements
thereof;
"Code for the Safe Carriage of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel,
Plutonium and High Level Radioactive Wastes on Board Ships" means the Code
annexed to IMO Resolution A.748(18) and any amendments thereto or replacements
thereof;
"control stations" means spaces in which radio or main
navigating equipment, or the emergency source of power, or the central fire
recording, or fire control equipment, or fire extinguishing installations are
located or a control room located outside a propelling machinery space;
"dangerous goods" means goods, articles and materials
prescribed as dangerous goods in Rules made under section … of the Ordinance;
"dead ship condition" means that condition under which the
main propulsion plant, boilers and auxiliaries are not in operation due to the
absence of power;
"deadweight" means the difference in tonnes between the
displacement of a ship at the summer load waterline in water of a specific
gravity of 1.025 and the lightweight of the ship;
"emergency condition" means a condition under which any
services needed for normal operational and habitable conditions are not in
working order due to failure of the main source of electrical power;
"emergency source of electrical power" means a source of
electrical power intended to supply the emergency switchboard in the event of
failure of the supply from the main source of electrical power;
"emergency switchboard" means a switchboard which in the
event of failure of the main electrical power supply system is directly
supplied by the emergency source of electrical power or the transitional source
of emergency power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the
emergency services;
"equivalent material" where the words are used in the
expression "steel or other equivalent material" means any material
which, by itself or due to insulation provided, has structural and integrity
properties equivalent to steel at the end of an appropriate fire test;
"fishing vessel" means a vessel used for catching fish,
whales, seals, walrus or other living resources of the sea;
"forward perpendicular" means the perpendicular defined as
such in the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Rules 200…;
"freeboard deck" means the deck defined as such in the Merchant
Shipping (Load Line) Rules 200…;
"gas carrier" means a tanker constructed or adapted and
used for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or certain other substances
of a flammable nature listed in Chapter 19 of the IGC Code;
"Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Offshore Supply
Vessels" means the guidelines annexed to IMO Resolution A.469(XII) and any
amendments thereto or replacements thereof;
"hazardous area" means an area in which explosive gas-air
mixtures are, or may be expected to be, present in quantities such as to
require special precautions for the construction and use of electrical
apparatus or other apparatus which otherwise would constitute a source of
ignition;
"high speed craft" is a craft capable of maximum speed in
metres per second (m/s) equal to or exceeding –
where L = displacement
corresponding to the design waterline (m3);
"High-Speed Craft Code" means the International Code of
Safety for High-Speed Craft adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the
Organization by Resolution MSC. 36(63) and any amendments thereto or
replacements thereof;
"IBC Code" has the meaning given by section … of the Shipping (Marine Pollution) Ordinance 200…;
"IGC Code" means the International Code for the
Construction and Equipment of Ships carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, 1993, and
any amendments thereto and replacements thereof;
"IMO" and "Organization" means the International
Maritime Organization;
"length" means the length of the ship ascertained in
accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Load Lines) Rules 200…;
"lightweight" means the displacement of a ship in tonnes
without cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, feed water and fresh water
in tanks, consumable stores, passengers and crew and their effects;
"Load Lines Convention" has the meaning given by section … of the Ordinance;
"machinery alarm and control centre" means the position
from which the propelling and auxiliary machinery can be controlled and where
the alarms other than those located in accommodation spaces and at the
navigating bridge, necessary for the safe operation of such machinery are
located;
"machinery control room" means a room from which the
propelling machinery and boilers serving the needs of propulsion may be
controlled;
"machinery space" means any space which contains
propelling machinery, boilers, oil fuel units, steam and internal combustion
engines, generators and major electrical machinery, oil filling stations,
refrigerating, stabilising, ventilation and air conditioning machinery, and
similar spaces; and, where the context so admits, any trunk to such a space;
"machinery spaces of Category A" means a machinery space
which contains -
(a) internal combustion type
machinery used either for main propulsion purposes, or for other purposes where
such machinery has in the aggregate a
total power output of not less than 375 kilowatts; or
(b) any oil fired boiler or oil fuel unit;
(c) and any trunk to such a space;
"main generating station" means the space in which the
main source of electrical power is situated;
"main source of electrical power" means a source intended
to supply electrical power to the main switchboard for distribution to all
services necessary for maintaining a ship in normal operational and habitable
condition;
"main steering gear" means the machinery, rudder
actuators, steering gear power units, if any, and auxiliary equipment and the
means of applying torque to the rudder stock, such as the tiller or quadrant,
necessary for effecting movement of the rudder for the purpose of steering the
ship under normal service conditions;
"main switchboard" means the switchboard which is directly
supplied by the main source of electrical power and is intended to distribute
electrical energy to the ship's services;
"MARPOL" means the International Convention for the
Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, including its protocols, Annex I (but
no other Annex) and appendices thereto and any amendments thereof and
replacements thereto;
"maximum ahead service speed" means the greatest speed
which the ship is designed to maintain at sea at her deepest seagoing draught;
"maximum astern speed" means the greatest speed which it
is estimated the ship can attain at the designed maximum astern power at the
deepest seagoing draught;
"navigable speed" means the minimum speed at which the
ship can be effectively steered in the ahead direction;
"noise level" means "A" weighted sound pressure
level in decibels dB(A) as defined and
tabulated in the International Electro-Technical Commission standard
specification number EN 60651: 1979 (British Standard EN 60651:1994];
"normal operational and habitable condition" is a
condition under which the ship as a whole, the machinery, services, means and
aids ensuring propulsion, ability to steer, safe navigation, fire and flooding
safety, internal and external communications and signals, means of escape and
emergency boat winches, as well as the designed comfortable conditions of
habitability, are in working order and functioning normally;
"oil fuel unit" means the equipment used for the
preparation of oil fuel for delivery to an oil fired boiler or equipment used
for the preparation for delivery of heated oil to an internal combustion engine
and includes any oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters dealing with oil at a
pressure greater than 180 kPa;
"oil tanker" means a ship constructed or adapted primarily
to carry oil in bulk in its cargo spaces and includes a combination carrier or
a chemical tanker when it is carrying a cargo or part cargo of oil in bulk;
"pleasure vessel" means -
(a) any vessel, including a dive boat, which at the
time it is being used is -
(i) (a) in the case of a vessel wholly owned by an
individual or individuals, used only for the sport or pleasure of the owner or
the immediate family or friends of the owner; or
(b) in
the case of a vessel owned by a body corporate, used only for sport or pleasure
and on which the persons are employees or officers of the body corporate, or
their immediate family or friends; and
(ii) on a voyage or excursion which is one for which the owner does not receive money for or in connection
with operating the vessel or carrying any person, other than as a contribution
to the direct expenses of the operation of the vessel incurred during the voyage
or excursion; or
(b) any vessel wholly owned
by or on behalf of a members' club formed for the purpose of sport or pleasure
which, at the time it is being used, is used only for the sport or pleasure of
members of that club or their immediate family; and for the use of which any
charges levied are paid into club funds and applied for the general use of the
club; and
(c) in the case of any vessel
referred to in subRules (a) or (b) above no other payments are made by or on
behalf of users of the vessel, other than by the owner.
In this definition "immediate family" means in relation to
an individual, the husband or wife of the individual, and a relative of the
individual or the individual's husband or wife, and "relative" means
brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant;
"power actuating system" means the hydraulic equipment
provided for supplying power to turn the rudder stock, comprising a steering
gear power unit or units, together with the associated pipes and fittings, and
a rudder actuator. The power actuating systems may share common mechanical
components, that is, tiller, quadrant and rudderstock or components serving the
same purpose;
"Reid vapour pressure" means the vapour pressure of a
liquid as determined by laboratory testing in a standard manner in the Reid
apparatus;
"a similar stage of construction" means a stage at which -
(a) construction identifiable with a specific ship
begins; and
(b) assembly of that ship,
comprising at least 50 tonnes of 1 per cent of the estimated mass of all
structural material, whichever is the less, has commenced;
"service spaces" includes galleys, pantries containing
cooking appliances, lockers, species rooms, laundries, store rooms, workshops
other than those forming part of machinery spaces and similar spaces and trunks
to such spaces;
"settling tank" means an oil storage tank having a heating
surface of not less than 0.183 square metre per tonne of oil capacity;
"steering gear control system" means the equipment,
comprising transmitters, receivers, hydraulic control pumps and their associated
motors, motor controllers, piping and cables by which orders are transmitted
from the navigating bridge to the steering gear power units;
"steering gear power unit" means -
(a) in the case of electric
steering gear, the electric motor and its associated electric equipment; or
(b) in the case of
electro-hydraulic steering gear, the electric motor, its associated electrical
equipment and connected pump; or
(c) in the case of
steam-hydraulic or pneumatic-hydraulic steering
gear, the driving engine and connected pump;
"suitable" in relation to material means suitable for the
purpose for which it is used;
"surveyor" means a surveyor appointed by a Administration;
"tanker" means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the
carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature and except where the
context otherwise requires, includes a gas carrier and a chemical tanker;
"tons" means gross tonnage determined in accordance with
tonnage Rules made under section … of
the Ordinance;
"upper deck" means the uppermost complete deck exposed to
the sea and weather fitted as an integral part of the ship's structure, being a
deck, openings in the weather portions of which are fitted with permanent means
of closing and below which all openings in the sides of the ship are fitted
with permanent means of watertight closing;
"watertight" means capable of preventing the passage of
water in any direction;
"weathertight" means that in any sea condition water will
not penetrate the ship.
(2) Where
a sub-heading refers to "requirements" or to "additional
requirements" for certain ships, the text following such a subheading -
(a) in that regulation, or until the next
sub-heading in that regulation ;and
(b) in that Part or Schedule, or until the next
subheading in that Part or Schedule,
shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, relate only to such ships.
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