Regulation 2

“business entity” means any entity carrying out any business activity, whether for profit or not, and whether organised as a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited liability partnership or otherwise;

“COLREGS” means the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Collisions at Sea) Regulations (Cap. 179, Rg 10);

“commercial use”, in relation to a pleasure craft, means the offer of the pleasure craft by the owner thereof to any person for hire or charter for that person’s use for sport or pleasure purposes within the port, and —

“GT”, in relation to a pleasure craft, means the gross tonnage of the pleasure craft as specified in its International Tonnage Certificate (1969) or Singapore Tonnage Certificate or, if none, a builder’s certificate recognised by the Port Master, or, if none, as determined by the Port Master in accordance with the tonnage measurement method set out in the First Schedule;

“licence” means a licence to use a pleasure craft within the port granted under Part II;

“load line length”, in relation to a pleasure craft means 96% of the total length on the waterline of the pleasure craft 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, whichever is greater. In craft designed with a rake of keel, the waterline on which this is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline;

“passenger” means every person other than —

“personal watercraft” means any pleasure craft less than 4 metres in length which —

“pleasure craft” means any craft which is intended for use (whether such use is for private use or commercial use) within the port exclusively for sport or pleasure purposes, but does not include any craft which is used to carry passengers on sightseeing tours within the port for which each such passenger is charged a separate and distinct fare;

“private use”, in relation to a pleasure craft, means the use of the pleasure craft within the port by its owner or his guests for sport or pleasure purposes, without any such guest having to pay any fee or any other form of consideration;

“recognised surveyor” means any surveyor of ships employed by an organisation recognised by the Port Master to carry out any survey for the purposes of these Regulations;

“register” means a register of licences kept by the Port Master under regulation 10;

“sailing dinghy” means a single-hulled pleasure craft with overall length equal to or less than 6 metres and without any motorised means of propulsion on board.