The Merchant Shipping (Passenger Ship Construction: Ships of Classes I, II and II(A)) Regulations 1998

means approved by the Secretary of State or, in relation to any equipment or arrangement mentioned in Merchant Shipping Notice No.

means the equipment, other than any part of the main steering gear, necessary to steer the ship in the event of failure of the main steering gear but not including the tiller, quadrant or components serving the same purpose;

means the greatest moulded breadth at or below the ship’s deepest subdivision load waterline;

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

means waters specified as such in Merchant Shipping Notice 1837(M) Amendment 2;

means the Secretary of State or any person authorised by the Secretary of State;

means a room either within or outside a propelling machinery space, from which propelling machinery and boilers may be controlled;

means crew accommodation within the meaning of section 43 in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;

means goods defined as such in the Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods and Marine Pollutants) Regulations 1997, 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 condition under which the main propulsion plant, boilers and auxiliaries are not in operation due to the absence of power;

includes bow visors and appliances described in regulation 28(1)(c);

means a condition under which any services needed for normal operational and habitable conditions are not in working order due to failure of the main source of electrical power;

means a source of electrical power intended to supply the emergency switchboard in the event of failure of the main source of electrical power;

means a switchboard which in the event of failure of the main electrical power supply system is directly supplied by the emergency source of electrical power or the transitional source of emergency electrical power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the emergency services;

means a superstructure— (a) which has enclosing bulkheads of efficient construction in which all access openings are fitted with sills and weathertight doors;

means the forward extremity of the length of the ship;

has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Rules 1998;

means an area in which explosive gas-air mixtures are, or may be expected to be, present in quantities such as to require special precautions for the construction and use of electrical apparatus or other apparatus which otherwise would constitute a source of ignition;

means a craft capable of a maximum speed in metres per second (m/s) equal to or exceeding: 3.7▽ 0.1667 where ▽ = volume of displacement corresponding to the design waterline (m3), excluding craft the hull of which is supported clear above the water surface in non displacement mode by aerodynamic forces generated by ground effect;

means the International Maritime Organization;

means a pump operated by power otherwise than from the ship’s main engines;

means a voyage between a port in the United Kingdom and a port outside the United Kingdom;

means the ship’s overall length;

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

means the doors described in regulation 28(1)(a) to (d) inclusive;

means secured by a device which prevents unauthorised operation.

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

means the space in which the main source of electrical power is situated;

means a source intended to supply electrical power to the main switchboard for distribution to all services necessary for maintaining the ship in a normal operational and habitable condition;

means the machinery, rudder actuators, steering gear power units, if any, and auxiliary equipment and the means of applying torque to the rudder stock, such as the tiller or quadrant, necessary for effecting movement of the rudder for the purpose of steering the ship under normal service conditions;

means a switchboard which is directly supplied by the main source of electrical power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the ship’s services;

means a line at least 76 millimetres below the upper surface of the bulkhead deck at the side of a subdivided ship;

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

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

means the greatest speed which the ship is designed to maintain in service at sea at her deepest seagoing draught;

means a nautical mile of 1852 metres;

means the minimum speed at which a ship can be effectively steered in the ahead direction;

means “A” weighted sound pressure level in decibels dB(A) as defined and tabulated in the British Standards specification number EN 60651: 1994;

means a surveyor nominated by the Secretary of State to undertake the surveys required by these Regulations and includes a marine surveyor of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;

means a condition under which the ship as a whole, the machinery, services, means and aids ensuring propulsion, ability to steer, safe navigation, fire and flooding safety, internal and external communications and signals, means of escape, and winches for emergency boats, as well as the designed comfortable conditions of habitability are in working order and functioning normally;

means the equipment used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to an oil-fired boiler or the equipment used for the preparation for delivery of heated oil to an internal combustion engine, and includes any oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters dealing with oil at a pressure greater than 1.8 bar;

means ro-ro cargo spaces which are open at both ends, or open at one end and provided with adequate natural ventilation effective over their entire length through permanent openings in the side plating or deckhead;

means any person carried in a ship except— (a) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of the ship;

means a ship carrying more than 12 passengers and propelled by electricity or other mechanical power;

means a space provided for the use of passengers, except as otherwise defined in paragraph 1(4) of section 1 of Schedule 2 in Merchant Shipping Notice MSN 1698 (M);

means a periodical survey pursuant to regulation 4(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Survey and Certification) Regulations 1995;

has the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping (Vessels in Commercial Use for Sport or Pleasure) Regulations 1993;

includes halls, dining rooms, bars, smoke rooms, lounges, recreation rooms, nurseries, libraries and similar public permanently enclosed spaces;

means any condition in which visibility is restricted by fog, mist, snow, rainstorms, sandstorms or any other similar causes;

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 passenger ship provided with cargo or vehicle spaces not normally subdivided in any way and extending to either a substantial length or the entire length of the ship in which vehicles or cargo can be loaded or unloaded in a horizontal direction;

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

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

means the Safety of Life at Sea Convention 1974, and its 1978 Protocol and amendments in force on 1st July 1998;

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

means the information required to be provided in compliance with regulation 38;

means— (a) in the case of electric steering gear, the electric motor and its associated electrical equipment;

means a ship which has a factor of subdivision of unity or 0.5;

means the waterline assumed in determining the subdivision of the ship in accordance with these Regulations;

means a decked structure situated on or above the bulkhead deck which either extends from side to side of the ship or is such that its side plating is not inboard of the shell plating of the ship by more than 4 per cent of the breadth of the ship and, where the bulkhead deck of the ship consists of a lower deck, includes that part of the hull of the ship which extends above the bulkhead deck;

means a deck forming the top of a superstructure;

means a ro-ro passenger ship which is a United Kingdom ship;

includes an excursion;