1.3 Definitions
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1.3 Definitions

 For the purpose of this Code the definitions given hereunder apply. For terms used but not defined in this Code, the definitions as given in the 1974 SOLAS Convention apply.

  1.3.1 “Crew” means all persons carried on board the ship to provide navigation and maintenance of the ship, its machinery, systems, and arrangements essential for propulsion and safe navigation or to provide services for other persons on board.

  1.3.2 “Passenger” means every person other than:

  • .1 the master and the members of the crew or other persons employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of that ship; and

  • .2 a child under one year of age.

  1.3.3 “Special personnel” means all persons who are not passengers or members of the crew or children of under one year of age and who are carried on board in connection with the special purpose of that ship or because of special work being carried out aboard that ship. Wherever in this Code the number of special personnel appears as a parameter it should include the number of passengers carried on board which may not exceed 12.

  1.3.4 Except as provided in 8.3, "special purpose ship" means a mechanically self-propelled ship which, by reason of its function, carries on board more than 12 special personnel including passengers. Special purpose ships to which this Code applies include the following types:

  • .1 ships engaged in research, expeditions and survey;

  • .2 ships for training of marine personnel;

  • .3 whale and fish factory ships not engaged in catching;

  • .4 ships processing other living resources of the sea, not engaged in catching; and

  • .5 other ships with design features and modes of operation similar to ships referred to in .1 to .4 which in the opinion of the Administration may be referred to this group.

  1.3.5 “1974 SOLAS Convention as amended”, unless otherwise stated, means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended by resolution MSC.1(XLV) adopted on 20 November 1981.

  1.3.6 “Near-coastal voyage” means a voyage in the vicinity of the coast of an Administration as defined by that Administration.

  1.3.7 “Length (L)” means 96% of the total length on a waterline at 85% of the least moulded depth measured from the top of the keel, or the length from the foreside of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In ships designed with a rake of keel, the waterline on which this length is measured should be parallel to the designed waterline. The length (L) should be measured in metres.

  1.3.8 “Breadth (B)” means the maximum breadth of the ship, measured amidships to the moulded line of the frame in a ship with a metal shell and to the outer surface of the hull in a ship with a shell of any other material. The breadth (B) should be measured in metres.

  1.3.9 “Permeability” in relation to a space is the ratio of the volume within that space which is assumed to be occupied by water to the total volume of that space.


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