1981 Ed.]
Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations
[CAP. 281
A 3
Repealed by CN372/9/0
MERCHANT SHIPPING (CERTIFICATION OF OFFICERS)
REGULATIONS
(Cap. 281, sections 5 and 6A)
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 268/81.
L.N. 293/81. L.N. 369/81.
[1 September 1981.]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations.
2. (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"dynamically supported ship" means a ship that is operable on or above water and the weight of which, or a significant part thereof, is balanced in one mode of operation by other than hydrostatic forces;
"GRT" in relation to a ship, means its gross register tonnage and the gross tonnage of a ship having alternative gross tonnages shall be taken to be the larger of those tonnages;
"foreign-going ship" means a ship engaged on a voyage not confined to river trade limits;
"Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1980" means those regulations made by the Secretary of State;
"Merchant Shipping (Certification of Marine Engineer Officers) Regulations 1980" means those regulations made by the Secretary of State;
"passengers";
"passenger ship" means a ship carrying more than 12
"proper officer" means a consular officer appointed by Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom and, in relation to a port in a country outside the United Kingdom which is not a foreign country, the public officer exercising, in that port, supervision over the engagement and discharge of seamen;
"registered power" means the brake or shaft power specified in the ship's certificate of registry;
"ship" means, except in regulation 3, a ship to which these regulations apply.
(2) (a) In these regulations, references to a certificate of a numbered class are references to a certificate of the class which bears that number as mentioned in Parts II and III.
Interpretation.
(5.1.1980 2026.)
(S.1.1980 2025.)
L.N. 369/81.