The Merchant Shipping (Fire Protection: Small Ships) Regulations 1998

means— (a) public spaces;

means, in relation to any equipment or arrangement, other than the equipment and arrangements to which regulations 5A and 8A apply, approved under the Merchant Shipping (Marine Equipment) Regulations 2025;

means the uppermost deck up to which transverse watertight bulkheads are carried;

means a room which any pumps used for loading, discharging or transferring cargoes are located;

means any ship which is not a passenger ship, pleasure vessel or fishing vessel;

means all spaces used for cargo including cargo oil tanks, slop tanks and trunks to such spaces;

means the waters specified as such in Merchant Shipping Notice No.

means a tanker constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquid product of a flammable nature listed in Chapter 17 of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk;

means the area from which the command and navigation of the ship is carried out.

means goods as defined in the Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Harmful Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and any reference to a particular class of dangerous goods is a reference to that class of dangerous goods as defined in those Regulations;

means the difference in tonnes between the displacement of a ship in water of a specific gravity of 1.025 at the load waterline corresponding to the assigned summer freeboard and the lightweight of the ship;

means fine, clear, settled weather with a sea state such as to cause only moderate rolling and/or pitching;

means the International Code for Application of Fire Test Procedures, as adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation by resolution MSC.61(67);

means a system with the capability to identify the exact location of the fire and the type of the detector.

means in relation to an individual, the spouse or civil partner of the individual, and a relative of the individual or the individual’s spouse or civil partner, and “relative” means brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant;

means the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization by resolution MSC.122(75), as amended by resolutions MSC.157(78), MSC.205(81), MSC.262(84), MSC.294(87), MSC.328(90), MSC.372(93), MSC.406(96), MSC.442(99), MSC.477(102) and MSC.501(105);

means the displacement of a ship in tonnes without cargo, oil fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, fresh water in tanks or stores, and... passengers and crew and their effects;

means a voyage from a port in one country to which the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974 (as amended) applies to a port in another country, or conversely, and which is not a short international voyage;

means that the surface described will adequately restrict the spread of flame, this being determined in accordance with the Fire Test Procedures Code;

means a space which contains propulsion machinery, boilers, oil fuel units, steam and internal combustion engines, generators and major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating, stabilising, ventilation and air conditioning machinery and similar spaces and where the context so admits, any trunk to such a space;

means a space which contains— (a) internal combustion type machinery used either for main propulsion purposes, or for other purposes where such machinery has in aggregate a total power output of not less than 375 kilowatts;

means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an Executive Agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions;

means a Notice described as such and issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;

means a material which neither burns nor gives off flammable vapours in sufficient quantity for self-ignition when heated to approximately 750°C, this being determined in accordance with the Fire Test Procedures Code.

means any boiler wholly or partly fired by liquid fuel;

means the equipment used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to an oil-fired boiler or equipment used for the preparation for delivery of heated oil to an internal combustion engine, and includes any pressure pumps, filters and heaters dealing with oil at a pressure more than 180 kPa;

means a ship in which all the passenger accommodation is completely open to the elements and is not fitted with a weathertight or watertight deck or structure above the waterline;

means a ship carrying more than 12 passengers;

means— (a) any vessel which at the time it is being used is— (a) (a) in the case of a vessel wholly owned by an individual or individuals used only for the sport or pleasure of the owner or the immediate family or friends of the owner;

includes halls, dining rooms, bars, smoke rooms, lounges, recreation rooms, nurseries, libraries, cinemas, sale shops and similar permanently enclosed spaces allocated to passengers or crew;

means brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant;

means a period falling wholly within the following limits— (a) from 1st April to 31st October, both dates inclusive;

means spaces not normally subdivided in any way and extending to either a substantial length or the entire length of the ship in which goods (packaged or in bulk), in or on rail or road cars, vehicles (including road or rail tankers), trailers, containers, pallets, demountable tanks or in or on similar stowage units or other receptacles can be loaded and unloaded normally in a horizontal direction;

means a ship provided with sufficient sail area for navigation under sails alone, whether or not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion;

means an oil storage tank having a heating surface of not less than 0.183 square metre per tonne of oil capacity;

means an international voyage— (a) in the course of which a ship is not more than two hundred nautical miles from a port of place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety;

means the stage at which construction identifiable with a specific ship begins;

means any enclosed space above or below the bulkhead deck intended for the carriage of motor vehicles with fuel in their tanks for their own propulsion, into and from which such vehicles can be driven... and to which passengers have access;

means any non-combustible material which, by itself or due to insulation provided, has structural and integrity properties equivalent to steel at the end of an appropriate fire test;

means the ship’s renewal survey as required by regulation 6(3)(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 2015.

means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature;

means gross tons and a reference to tons— (a) in relation to a ship having alternative gross tonnages under paragraph 13 of Schedule 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1982 permitted to be used pursuant to regulation 12(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 1997 is a reference to the larger of these tonnages;

includes an excursion.