2 DEFINITIONS
(Note - where a definition is not contained within this Code, guidance should be taken from meanings given within the International Conventions)
"Administration" with regard to this Code means the Government of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly.
"Approved" in respect to materials or equipment means approved by the Administration or approved by an administration or organisation which is formally recognised by the Administration;
"Authorised surveyor" means a surveyor who by reason of professional qualifications, practical experience and expertise is authorised to carry out the survey required, by the Administration for the vessel;
"Auxiliary steering gear" is 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;
"Buoyant lifeline" means a line complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Buoyant smoke signal" means a pyrotechnic signal complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Cargo" means an item(s) of value that is carried from one place and discharged at another place and for which either a charge or no charge is made and is not for use exclusively onboard the vessel;
"Commercial vessel" means a vessel which is not a pleasure vessel;
"Control stations" are those spaces in which the ship's radio or main navigating equipment or the emergency source of power is located or where the fire recording or fire control equipment is centralised;
"Dead ship condition" is the condition under which the main propulsion plant, boilers and auxiliaries are not in operation due to the absence of power;
"Efficient" in relation to a fitting, piece of equipment or material means that all reasonable and practicable measures have been taken to ensure that it is suitable for the purpose for which it is intended to be used;
"Embarkation ladder" means a ladder complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Emergency condition" is 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;
"Emergency source of electrical power" is a source of electrical power, intended to supply the emergency switchboard in the event of failure of the supply from the main source of electrical power;
"Emergency switchboard" is 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 power and is intended to distribute electrical energy to the emergency services;
"EPIRB" means a satellite emergency position-indicating radio beacon, being an earth station in the mobile-satellite service, the emissions of which are intended to facilitate search and rescue operations, complying with performance standards adopted by the IMO contained in either Resolution A.810(19) or Resolution A.812(19) and Resolution A.662(16), or any Resolution amending or replacing these from time to time and which is considered by the Administration to be relevant, and is capable of:-
(a) floating free and automatically activating if the ship sinks;
(b) being manually activated; and
(c) being carried by one person;
"Existing vessel" means any vessel, the keel of which was laid or the construction or lay up was started before the 16 th December 1998;
"Float-free launching" means that method of launching a liferaft whereby the liferaft is automatically released from a sinking ship and is ready for use, complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Freeboard" has the meaning given in annex I of ICLL. The freeboard assigned is the distance measured vertically downwards amidships from the upper edge of the deck line to the upper edge of the related load line;
"Freeboard deck" has the meaning given in annex I of ICLL. The freeboard deck is normally the uppermost complete deck exposed to the weather and sea, which has permanent means of closing all openings in the weather part thereof, and below which all openings in the sides of the ship are fitted with permanent means of watertight closing.
In a ship having a discontinuous freeboard deck, the lowest line of the exposed deck and the continuation of that line parallel to the upper part of the deck is taken as the freeboard deck.
At the option of the owner and subject to the approval of the Administration, a lower deck may be designated as the freeboard deck provided it is a complete and permanent deck continuous in a fore and aft direction at least between the machinery space and peak bulkheads and continuous athwartships.
When a lower deck is designated as the freeboard deck, that part of the hull which extends above the freeboard deck is treated as a superstructure so far as concerns the application of the conditions of assignment and the calculation of freeboard. It is from this deck that the freeboard is calculated;
"Fire resisting divisions" are those divisions formed by bulkheads and decks which shall be constructed of materials which by insulation or inherent fire resisting properties satisfy the following requirements;
(a) They shall be suitably stiffened.
(b) They shall be so constructed as to be capable of preventing the passage of smoke and flame up to the end of the appropriate fire protection time.
(c) Where required they shall maintain load carrying capabilities up to the end of the appropriate fire protection time.
(d) They shall have thermal properties such that comply with the requirements of the IMO Fire Test Procedures Code for the appropriate fire protection time.
(e) A test of a prototype bulkhead or deck in accordance with the IMO Fire Test Procedures Code shall be required to ensure that it meets the above requirements.
"Garbage" means all kinds of victual, domestic and operational waste excluding fresh fish and parts thereof, generated during the normal operation of the vessel and liable to be disposed of continuously or periodically, except sewage originating from vessels;
"ICLL" means the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966, as amended;
"IMO" means the International Maritime Organisation, a specialised agency of the United Nations devoted to maritime affairs;
"Inflatable lifejacket" means a lifejacket complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Instructions for on-board maintenance" means the instructions complying with the requirements of SOLAS III/Part B - Life Saving Appliances and Arrangements, Regulation 36;
"Launching appliance" means a provision complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code for safely transferring a lifeboat, rescue boat, or liferaft respectively, from its stowed position to the water and recovery where applicable;
"Length" means 96% of the total length on a waterline of a ship at 85% of the least moulded depth measured from the top of the keel, or the length from the fore-side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In ships designed with a rake of keel the waterline on which this is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline;
"Lifeboat" means a lifeboat complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Lifebuoy" means a lifebuoy complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Lifejacket" means a lifejacket complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Liferaft" means a liferaft complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Line throwing appliance" means an appliance complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Low flame spread" means that the surface thus described will adequately restrict the spread of flame, this being determined to the satisfaction of the Administration by an established procedure;
"Machinery spaces" are all machinery spaces of category A and all other spaces containing propelling machinery, boilers, oil fuel units, steam and internal combustion engines, generators and major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating, stabilizing, ventilation and air conditioning machinery, and similar spaces, and trunks to such spaces;
"Machinery spaces of category A" are those spaces and trunks to such spaces which contain:
(a) internal combustion machinery used for main propulsion; or
(b) internal combustion machinery used for purposes other than main propulsion where such machinery has in the aggregate a total power output of not less than 375 Kw; or
(c) any oil-fired boiler or oil fuel unit;
"Main generating station" is the space in which the main source of electrical power is situated;
"Main source of electrical power" is a source intended to supply electrical power to the main switchboard for distribution to all services necessary for maintaining the ship in normal operational and habitable condition;
"Main steering gear" is the machinery, rudder actuators, steering gear power units, if any, and ancillary equipment and the means of applying torque to the rudder stock (e.g. tiller or quadrant) necessary for effecting movement of the rudder for the purpose of steering the ship under normal service conditions;
"Main switchboard" is 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;
"Main vertical zone" means those sections into which the hull, superstructure and deckhouses are divided by A class divisions, the mean length of which on any deck does not normally exceed 40 metres;
"MARPOL" means the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended;
"Maritime & Coastguard Agency" (MCA) means the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the United Kingdom Department for Transport;
"Mile" means a nautical mile of 1852 metres;
"Motor vessel" means a vessel which is described in the register and on the certificate of registry as such, and which has a sole means of propulsion either one or more power units;
"Multihull vessel" means any vessel which in any normally achievable operating trim or heel angle, has a rigid hull structure which penetrates the surface of the sea over more than one separate or discrete area;
"New vessel" means a vessel to which this Code applies, the keel of which was laid or the construction or lay up was started on or after the 1st October 1997;
"Not readily ignitable" means that the surface thus described will not continue to burn for more than 20 seconds after removal of a suitable impinging test flame;
"Owner(s)/managing agent(s)" means the registered owner(s) or the owner(s) or the managing agent(s) of the registered owner(s) or the owner(s) or owner(s) ipso facto, as the case may be;
"Passenger" 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;
(b) a person on board the ship either in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circumstances that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented; and
(c) a child under one year of age;
"Passenger ship" means a ship carrying more than 12 passengers;
"Person" means a person over the age of one year;
["Pleasure vessel" means a vessel so defined by the Administration (see National Annex);]
"Position 1" means upon exposed freeboard and raised quarter decks and upon exposed superstructure decks situated forward of a point located a quarter of the ship's length from the forward perpendicular;
"Position 2" means upon exposed superstructure decks situated abaft a quarter of the ship's length from the forward perpendicular;
"Power actuating system" is the hydraulic equipment provided for supplying power to turn the rudder stock, comprising a steering gear power unit or units, together with the associated pipes and fittings, and a rudder actuator. The power actuating systems may share common mechanical components, i.e., tiller, quadrant and rudder stock, or components serving the same purpose;
"Radar transponder" means a radar transponder for use in survival craft to facilitate location of survival craft in search and rescue operations;
"Recess" means an indentation or depression in a deck and which is surrounded by the deck and has no boundary common with the shell of the vessel;
"Rescue boat" means a boat complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code and designed to rescue persons in distress and for marshalling liferafts;
"Retro-reflective material" means a material which reflects in the opposite direction a beam of light directed on it;
Rocket parachute flare" means a pyrotechnic signal complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Safe haven" means a harbour or shelter of any kind which affords entry, subject to prudence in the weather conditions prevailing, and protection from the force of the weather;
"Sailing vessel" means a vessel designed to carry sail, whether as a sole means of propulsion or as a supplementary means;
"Sail training vessel" means a sailing vessel which, at the time, is being used either:-
a) to provide instruction in the principles of responsibility, resourcefulness, loyalty and team endeavour and to advance education in the art of seamanship; or
b) to provide instruction in navigation and seamanship for yachtsmen;
"Self-activating smoke signal" means a signal complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Self-igniting light" means a light complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Short Range Yacht" means an existing vessel under 500 GT or a new vessel under 300 GT,
"SOLAS" means the International Convention of Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended;
"SOLAS A emergency pack" means a liferaft emergency pack complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"SOLAS B emergency pack" means a liferaft emergency pack complying with the requirements of the IMO International Life-Saving Appliances Code;
"Standard fire test" means a test in which specimens of the relevant bulkheads, decks or other constructions are exposed in a test furnace by a specified test method in accordance with the IMO Fire Test Procedures Code.
"Steering gear control system" is the equipment by which orders are transmitted from the navigating bridge to the steering gear power units. Steering gear control systems comprise transmitters, receivers, hydraulic control pumps and their associated motors, motor controllers, piping and cables;
"Steering gear power unit" is:
(a) in the case of electric steering gear, and electric motor and its associated electrical equipment;
(b) in the case of electro-hydraulic steering gear, an electric motor and its associated electrical equipment and connected pump;
(c) in the case of other hydraulic steering gear, a driving engine and connected pump;
"Superstructure" has the meaning given in annex I to ICLL;
"Survival craft" means a craft capable of sustaining the lives of persons in distress from the time of abandoning the ship;
"Training manual" with regard to life-saving appliances means a manual complying with the requirements of SOLAS III/Part B - Life Saving Appliances and Arrangements, Regulation 35;
"Two-way VHF radiotelephone set" means a portable or a fixed VHF installation for survival craft complying with the performance standards adopted by the IMO contained in A.762(18 ) or any Resolution amending or replacing it which is considered by the Administration to be relevant from time to time;
"Voyage" includes an excursion;
"Waterproofed" means protected as far as is practicable from the ingress of water;
"Watertight" means capable of preventing the passage of water in any direction;
"Weather deck" means the uppermost complete weathertight deck fitted as an integral part of the vessel's structure and which is exposed to the sea and weather;
"Weathertight" has the meaning given in annex I of ICLL. Weathertight means that in any sea conditions water will not penetrate into the ship;
"Wheelhouse" means the control position occupied by the officer of the watch who is responsible for the safe navigation of the vessel;
"Window" means a ship's window, being any window, regardless of shape, suitable for installation aboard ships;