Regulation 3

In these Regulations, unless the context othewise requires — “approved” means approved by the Director; “barge” means a cargo ship of any tonnage not propelled by mechanical means; “breadth (B)” means the maximum breadth of the ship, measured amidships to the moulded line of the frame in a ship with a metal shell and to the outer surface of the hull in a ship with a shell of any other material; “Certifying Authority” means the Director of Marine and any other organisation authorised by the Minister under the Merchant Shipping (Authorised Organisations) Regulations 1996 [G.N. No. S 44/96]; [S 60/96 wef 02/02/1996] “control station” means the spaces in which the ship’s radio or main navigation equipment or the emergency source of power is located, or where the fire recording or fire control equipment is centralised; “depth (D)” means the vertical distance measured amidships from the keel line to the top of the freeboard deck beam at side except that — ( a ) in vessels having rounded gunwales, the depth shall be measured to the point of intersection of the moulded lines of the deck and side shell plating, the lines extending as though the gunwale were of angular design; ( b ) where the freeboard deck is stepped and the raised part of the deck extends over the point at which the depth is to be determined, the depth shall be measured to a line of reference extending from the lower part of the deck along a line parallel with the raised part; “existing ship” means a ship which is not a new ship; “fishing vessel” means a vessel used for catching fish, whales, seals, walrus or other living resources of the sea; “fuel oil unit” means the equipment used for the preparation of fuel oil for delivery to an oil-fired boiler, or equipment used for the preparation of oil for delivery to an internal combustion engine, and includes any oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters dealing with oil at a pressure greater than 0.18 newtons per square millimetre; “international voyage” means a voyage from Singapore to a port or place outside Singapore, or conversely, or between two ports or places which are outside Singapore; “length (L)” in relation to a ship means 96% of the total length on a waterline at 85% of the least depth measured from the keel line, or as the length from the foreside of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In ships designed with rake of keel the waterline on which this length is measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline; “machinery spaces of Category A” means those spaces (including trunks to such spaces) which contain — ( a ) internal combustion type machinery used for main propulsion or for other purposes where such machinery has in the aggregate a total power output of not less than 375 kilowatts; or ( b ) any oil-fired boiler or fuel oil unit; “machinery spaces” means those machinery spaces of Category A and all other spaces containing propulsion machinery, boilers, fuel oil units, steam and internal combustion engines, generators, steering gear, major electrical machinery, oil filling stations, refrigerating, stabilising, ventilating and air conditioning machinery and similar spaces and trunks to such spaces; “new ship” means a ship the keel of which is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after 23rd April 1982; “off-shore supply vessel” means a cargo ship propelled by mechanical means — ( a ) whose primary use is the transport of stores, materials and equipment to off-shore installations and which may also be used for the laying of anchors, towage of off-shore installations; and ( b ) which is designed with accommodation and bridge erections in the forward part of the vessel and an exposed cargo deck in the after part for the handling of cargo at sea; “service barge” means a barge especially designed (or suitably converted), fitted out or equipped to operate wholly or generally as a dredger, hopper dredger, sand carrier, hopper barge, reclamation craft or crane barge; “tonnes” means tonnes gross tonnage; “tanker” means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature; “30-mile limit voyage” means a voyage which does not extend beyond 20 miles from the nearest land and 30 miles from the port limit.