- Category A, B or C Waters
means any water not being the sea or Category D Waters and, in particular, means waters of any of the areas specified in column 2 of the Annex to Merchant Shipping Notice No.
- Category D Waters
means, as respects any period specified in the Annex to Merchant Shipping Notice No.
- interference
has the same meaning as in section 19(4) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949;
- international voyage
means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country;
- maintenance
means any activity intended to keep an installation in satisfactory working condition and includes tests, measurements, replacements, adjustments and repair;
- Merchant Shipping Notice
means a Notice described as such and issued by the Department of Transport;
- Passenger Certificate Class II(A)
means a certificate issued under or pursuant to the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1988 for passenger ships engaged on voyages of any kind other than international voyages;
- Passenger Certificate Class III
means a certificate so issued for passenger ships engaged only on voyages in the course of which they are at no time more than 70 miles by sea from their point of departure and not more than 18 miles from the coast of the United Kingdom, and which are at sea only in favourable weather and during Restricted periods;
- Passenger Certificate Class IV
means a certificate so issued for passenger ships engaged only on voyages in Category A, B, C and D Waters;
- Passenger Certificate Class V
means a certificate so issued for passenger ships engaged only on voyages in Category A, B and C Waters;
- Passenger Certificate Class VI
means a certificate so issued for passenger ships engaged on voyages with not more than 250 passengers on board, to sea, or in Category A, B, C and D Waters, in all cases in favourable weather and during Restricted periods, in the course of which the ships are at no time more than 15 miles, exclusive of any Category A, B, C and D Waters, from their point of departure nor more than 3 miles from land;
- Passenger Certificate Class VI(A)
means a certificate so issued for passenger ships carrying not more than 50 passengers for a distance of not more than 6 miles on voyages to or from isolated communities on the islands or coasts of the United Kingdom and which do not proceed for a distance of more than 3 miles from land subject to any conditions which the Secretary of State may impose;
- passenger ship
means a ship carrying more than 12 passengers;
- pleasure craft
means a vessel primarily used for sport or recreation;
- radar watch
means observing displayed radar information, the frequency of observation depending upon the prevailing conditions;
- Restricted period
means a period falling wholly within the following limits:– (a) from the 1st April to 31st October, both dates inclusive;
- tanker
means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature;
- the Organisation
means the International Maritime Organisation;
- tons
means gross tonnage and shall be: (a) for a ship having alternative gross tonnages under paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1982 the larger of those tonnages;
- voyage
includes an excursion.