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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1295 – Guidance in Relation to Certain Types of Ships which are Required to Transmit LRIT Information on Exemptions and Equivalents and on Certain Operational Matters – (8 December 2008) - Annex – Guidance in Relation to Certain Types of Ships which are Required to Transmit LRIT Information on Exemptions and Equivalents and on Certain Operational Matters - Definitions

Definitions

  1.1 Unless expressly provided otherwise:

  • .1 Convention means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended.

  • .2 Regulation means a regulation of the Convention.

  • .3 Chapter means a chapter of the Convention.

  • .4 Gross tonnage means the one determined under the provisions of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 irrespective of the date on which the ship or high-speed craft has been or is being constructed.

  • .5 Ship means a passenger ship, a cargo ship, a high-speed craft and a mobile offshore drilling unit which is required pursuant to the provisions of regulation V/19-1 to transmit LRIT information.

  • .6 Offshore supply vessel means a vessel as defined in paragraph 1.1.2 of the Guidelines for the design and construction of offshore supply vessels, 2006 adopted by resolution MSC.235(82).

  • .7 Special purpose ship means a ship as defined in paragraph 1.3.12 of the Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships, 2008 adopted by resolution MSC.266(84).

  • .8 A.494(XII)-ship means a ship the keel of which was laid before 18 July 1994 and which in accordance with the provisions of operative paragraph 3 of resolution A.494(XII) on Revised interim scheme for tonnage measurement for certain ships were allowed to use the gross tonnage determined in accordance with national tonnage rules in determining whether it is required to comply with the provisions of chapter IV.

  1.2 Terms not otherwise defined have the same meaning as the meaning attributed to them in chapters I, IV and V.


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