Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Liability of Shipowners and Salvorsfor Maritime Claims
137. General limits
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In the application of Article 6 of the Convention —
Convention
“Convention” means the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976, as amended by the Protocol of 1996 to Amend the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims and set out in the First Schedule;
to a ship licensed as a harbour craft under the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996, that Article has effect as if the aggregate of the amounts in paragraph 1(a)(i) and (b)(i) referred to the sum insured under the policy of insurance for the time being required by the Port Master under that Act to be in force in relation to that harbour craft in respect of third party risks; and
to any other ship with a tonnage less than 300 tons, that Article has effect as if —
paragraph 1(a)(i) referred to 166,667 Units of Account; and
paragraph 1(b)(i) referred to 83,333 Units of Account.
For the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention and subsection (1)(b), a ship’s tonnage is its gross tonnage calculated in such manner as may be prescribed by an order made by the Minister.
ship
“ship” means any kind of vessel used in navigation by water, however propelled or moved and includes —(a)a barge, lighter or other floating vessel;(b)an air-cushion vehicle, or other similar craft, used wholly or primarily in navigation by water; and(c)an off-shore industry mobile unit;
Any order under this section must, so far as appears to the Minister to be practicable, give effect to the regulations in Annex I of the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969.