3 Definitions
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3 Definitions

  3.1 Unless indicated otherwise for the purposes of this note:

  • .1 Authorized testing ASP means an Application Service Provider, other than a Recognized ASP, which has been authorized by the Administration to conduct conformance tests in accordance with this note and for which related information has been communicated to the Organization in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 6.2;

  • .2 Certificate means the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate, Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate and Cargo Ship Safety Certificate issued under the provisions of the Convention or the Protocol and High-Speed Craft Safety Certificate issued under the provisions of the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft or the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, 2000;

  • .3 Chapter means a chapter of the Convention;

  • .4 Contracting Government means a Contracting Government to the Convention;

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

  • .6 Protocol means the Protocol of 1988 relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended;

  • .7 Radio related certificate means the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate, Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate and Cargo Ship Safety Certificate issued under the provisions of the Convention or the Protocol and High-Speed Craft Safety Certificate issued under the provisions of the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft or the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, 2000;

  • .8 Record of Equipment means the Record of Equipment for the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate (Form P), the Record of Equipment for the Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate (Form E) and the Record of Equipment for the Cargo Ship Safety Certificate (Form C) issued under the provisions of the Convention or the Protocol and the Record of Equipment for High-Speed Craft Safety Certificate issued under the provisions of the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft or the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft, 2000;

  • .9 Recognized ASP means an Application Service Provider which has been recognized by the Contracting Government concerned pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs 5.1.1 and 5.1.2 of the Revised performance standards and for which related information has been communicated to the Organization in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5.2 of the Revised performance standards;

  • .10 Regulation means a regulation of the Convention (or of the Convention as modified by the Protocol, as in force between Contracting Governments which are also parties to the Protocol); and

  • .11 Ship refers to ships, high-speed craft and mobile offshore drilling units which are required to comply with the provisions of regulation V/19-1.

  3.2 Terms used in this note not otherwise defined have the meaning assigned to them in chapters I, IV and V or in the Revised performance standards.


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