2 Definitions
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.263(84) – Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships – (Adopted on 16 May 2008) - Annex – Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships - 2 Definitions

2 Definitions

  2.1 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 LRIT Data User means a Contracting Government or a Search and rescue (SAR) service which opts to receive the LRIT information it is entitled to.

  • .5 Committee means the Maritime Safety Committee.

  • .6 High-speed craft means a craft as defined in regulation X/1.3.

  • .7 Mobile offshore drilling unit means a mobile offshore drilling unit as defined in regulation XI-2/1.1.5.

  • .8 Organization means the International Maritime Organization.

  • .9 Vessel Monitoring System means a system established by a Contracting Government or a group of Contracting Governments to monitor the movements of the ships entitled to fly its or their flag. A Vessel Monitoring System may also collect from the ships information specified by the Contracting Government(s) which has established it.

  • .10 LRIT information means the information specified in regulation V/19-1.5.

  2.2 The term “ship”, when used in the present performance standards, includes mobile offshore drilling units and high-speed craft as specified in regulation V/19-1.4.1 and means a ship which is required to transmit LRIT information.

  2.3 Terms not otherwise defined should have the same meaning as the meaning attributed to them in the Convention.

Parent topic: Annex – Revised Performance Standards and Functional Requirements for the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships
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