(14 of 1953).
(G.N.A 111/53).
"certificated officer" means a master, mate or engineer who possesses a certificate of service or competency granted in the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Acts, or a colonial certificate of competency declared by any Order of Her Majesty in Council to be of the same force as if it had been granted under the said Acts, or, in the case of a foreign vessel, an officer who has received a certificate of competency granted by a competent authority of his country, which the Governor is satisfied is of corresponding value to any certificate of competency granted under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, provided that his certificate is of a grade appropriate to his station in the vessel or of a higher grade;
"classification society" means any of the following-
(a) Lloyd's Register of Shipping i
(b) The American Bureau of Shipping:
(c) The Bureau Veritas Society for the Classification and
Registration of Shipping;
(4) Det Norske Veritas, Oslo;
"dangerous goods anchorage" means any of the areas specified as dangerous goods anchorages in the fourth appendix to the Merchant Shipping (Control of Ports) Regulations,
1953 1
"Director"' means the Director of Marine and includes any person deputed or authorized by the Director to execute any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him here- under;
"effective" in relation to absorbent material means of such a nature and so disposed as to prevent movement and, where reasonably possible, of sufficient quantity to absorb all liquid surrounded by such material;
"Blameproof" in relation to any apparatus means capable of withstanding without injury thereto an explosion of any inflammable vapour which may occur therein under normal conditions of operation and of preventing the transmission of flame to the surrounding atmosphere;
"Aash point" means the temperature on the Fahrenheit scale, as ascertained by methods prescribed under the Ordinance, at
which an inflammable liquid gives off vapour which will take fire or explode if mixed with air and exposed momentarily to a naked light;
"gas free certificate" means a certificate issued by an approved person in respect of a vessel that such vessel is free from inflammable vapouri
"Government surveyor" means a person appointed as a ship
surveyor under section 25 of the Merchant Shipping (14 of
1952). Ordinance, 1953;
"hermetically sealed" means so constructed and secured as to be air-tight and to remain air-tight under usual conditions; "highly inflammable” in relation to liquids means having a flash
point below 73° Fahrenheit ;
"inflammable" in relation to liquids means having a flash point of or exceeding 73° Fahrenheit but not exceeding 150° Fahrenheit;
"in bulk" means in any container, tank or compartment having
a capacity of or exceeding one hundred gallons;
“junk” means a junk as defined in section 2 of the Merchant (14 of
1953). Shipping Ordinance, 1953;
"master includes every person (except a pilot) having command
of any vessel;
"Merchant Shipping Acts" means the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1952, and any enactment of the United Kingdom Parliament amending the same or in replacement thereof and includes all regulations made thereunder;
"passenger" means any person carried in a vessel except-
(4) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board
the vessel on the business of the vessel; and (h) a person on board the vessel either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circum. stances that neither the master nor the owner could have prevented or forestalled;
*passenger vessel" means any vessel employed in carrying
passengers: