Section 2

In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —

“alteration” includes deterioration;

“Authority” means the Port of Singapore Authority established under the Port of Singapore Authority Act [Cap. 236];

“Board of Trade” means the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom;

“buoys and beacons” includes all other marks and signs of the sea;

“cargo ship” means any ship which is not a passenger ship;

“certificated officer” means any officer holding a certificate issued or deemed to have been issued under section 11;

“collision regulations” means regulations made under section 208;

“Colonial Court of Admiralty” has the same meaning as in the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890 [U.K. 1890 c. 27];

“consular officer” —

“country to which the Load Lines Convention applies” means —

“country to which the Safety Convention applies” means —

“court”, in relation to any proceeding, includes any court having jurisdiction in the matter to which the proceeding relates;

“deck passenger” means a passenger for whom no accommodation in any cabin, state-room or saloon is reserved;

“Director” means the Director of Marine appointed under section 6 and includes the Deputy Director of Marine appointed under that section;

“effects” includes clothes and documents;

“foreign-going passenger steamer” means every foreign-going ship which is a passenger steamer;

“foreign-going ship” includes every ship employed in trading or going between some place or places in Singapore and some place or places situate beyond the limits prescribed for home-trade ships;

“home-trade passenger steamer” means every home-trade ship which is a passenger steamer;

“home-trade ship” means a ship plying solely upon a home-trade voyage;

“home-trade voyage” means a voyage within the following limits: an imaginary line drawn from a position in the Gulf of Martaban in latitude 16° 15' north, longitude 96° east in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude 15° north, longitude 97° east, thence due south to a position in latitude 9° north, longitude 97° east, thence in a south-westerly direction to a position in latitude 6° north, longitude 94° east, thence due south to a position in latitude 4° north, longitude 94° east, thence in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude 8° south, longitude 104° east, thence in an easterly direction to a position in latitude 10° south, longitude 120° east, thence due east to a position in latitude 10° south, longitude 125° east, thence due north to a position in latitude 8° north, longitude 125° east, thence due west to a position in latitude 8° north, longitude 110° east, thence in a 315° direction (N.W. true) to the coast of Vietnam, thence initially westward following the coasts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Burma to the starting point;

“international voyage” means a voyage from Singapore to a port or place outside Singapore or a voyage to Singapore from a port or place outside Singapore;

“lighthouse” shall, in addition to the ordinary meaning of the word, include any floating and other light exhibited for the guidance of ships, and also any sirens and any other description of fog signals, and also any addition to a lighthouse of any improved light, or any siren, or any description of fog signal;

“load lines” means such lines as are referred to in section 236(2)(e);

“Load Lines Convention” means the International Convention on Load Lines signed in London on 5th April 1966 and the regulations annexed thereto;

“master” includes every person, except a pilot, having command or charge of any ship;

“Merchant Shipping Acts” means the Merchant Shipping Acts from time to time in force in the United Kingdom;

“mile” means 1,852 metres;

“name” includes a surname;

“native sailing ship” means any wooden ship of primitive build of less than 200 tons gross tonnage and not fitted with any mechanical means of propulsion, and includes a junk, tongkang, twakow and any other ship of similar build;

“officer” includes a master, mate, engineer, gunner, helmsman and engine driver;

“passenger” means every person other than —

“passenger ship” means a ship which carries more than 12 passengers;

“pilot” means any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof;

“port” has the same meaning as in the Port of Singapore Authority Act [Cap. 236];

“Port Master” means the Port Master appointed under section 30 of the Port of Singapore Authority Act and includes any Deputy Port Master appointed under that section;

“representation” means probate, administration, confirmation or other instrument constituting a person the executor, administrator or other representative of a deceased person, and “legal personal representative” means the person so constituted executor, administrator or other representative of a deceased person;

“Safety Convention” means the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on 1st November 1974 and any amendment made thereto which has come into force and has been accepted by the Government;

“sailing ship” means any ship not fitted with any mechanical means of propulsion;

“salvor” means, in the case of salvage services rendered by the officers or crew or part of the crew of any naval ship, the person in command of that ship;

“sea-going ship” means any ship going beyond port limits;

“seaman” includes every person, except a master or pilot, employed or engaged in any capacity as part of the crew on board any ship;

“ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars;

“Singapore ship” means a ship registered under Part XIII;

“Superintendent” means the Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine Office referred to in section 26 and includes any deputy superintendent appointed under that section, or, if the context so requires, any superintendent appointed under the Merchant Shipping Acts;

“tidal water” means any part of the sea and any part of a river within the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides;

“vessel” includes any ship or boat or air cushioned vehicle or floating rig or platform used in any form of operations at sea or any other description of vessel;

“voyage” means the whole time and the whole distance between the ship’s port or place of departure and her final port or place of arrival;

“wages” includes emoluments.

In this Act —