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Repealed by CN372/9/0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.

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