anniversary datemeans the day and month of each year which will correspond to the date of expiry of the International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk;
appropriate Certifying Authoritymeans the Secretary of State or any person authorised by the Secretary of State and includes in particular (if so authorised) Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, the British Committee of Bureau Veritas, the British Committee of Det Norske Veritas, the British Committee of Germanischer Lloyd, the British Technical Committee of the American Bureau of Shipping, and the British Committee of Registro Italiano Navale;”
International Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulkmeans a certificate which certifies compliance with the IGC Code;”
Merchant Shipping Noticemeans a Notice described as such and issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (which is an executive agency of the Department for Transport);
proper officermeans a consular officer appointed by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and, in relation to a port in a country outside the United Kingdom which is not a foreign country, also any officer exercising in that port functions similar to those of a superintendent;
short international voyagemeans a voyage from a port in one country to which the 1974 SOLAS Convention applies to a port in another country, or conversely,— (a) in the course of which a ship is not more than two hundred nautical miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety, and (b) which does not exceed 600 nautical miles in distance between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the last port of call in the scheduled voyage before beginning a return voyage, and which on the return voyage does not exceed 600 nautical miles in distance between the port of call in which the ship commences its return voyage and the first p
the principal Regulationsmeans the Merchant Shipping (Gas Carriers) Regulations 1994.