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Section 156Part 7 — SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA AND MARITIME SECURITY

Definitions in Part 7

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In this Part —
"anniversary date" means the day and the month of each year which will correspond to the date of expiry of the relevant certificate;
"cargo ship" means any ship that is not a —
passenger ship;
ship of war;
fishing vessel; or
pleasure vessel;
"Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate", "Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate", "Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate", "Cargo Ship Safety Certificate" and "Passenger Ship Safety Certificate" mean the certificates of those names issued under section 166;
"certificate" means a certificate issued in accordance with the Safety Convention as defined therein;
"company" has the meaning given in Chapter 9 of the Safety Convention;
"fishing vessel" means a vessel used for catching fish, whales, seals, walrus or other living resources of the sea;
"intentional unlawful act" means a deliberate act which, by its nature or context, could harm vessels used for international or national maritime traffic, their passengers or cargoes or any port facilities whether or not actually used by such vessels;
"international voyage" means a voyage between a port in one country and a port in another country where at least one of the ports is in a Safety Convention country;
"maritime security" means the combination of measures intended to protect shipping and port facilities against intentional unlawful acts;
"Passenger Certificate" and "Cayman Islands Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate" mean the certificates of those names issued under section 166;
"port facility" means a location where an interface between ships and ports takes place, and includes anchorages, waiting berths and approaches from seaward;
"radio installation" means any radio installation provided on board a ship in life saving appliances in compliance with the relevant regulations;
"radio-navigational equipment" means the equipment required by the relevant regulations;
"Safety Convention country" means a country, the government of which has accepted the Safety Convention, and which has not denounced that Convention, or a territory of such country to which the Convention extends and remains extended;
"Safety Convention Certificate" means a certificate that is required to be issued to a Safety Convention ship that complies with the relevant provisions of the Safety Convention, and includes a Cargo Ship Safety Certificate, Safety Construction Certificate, Safety Equipment Certificate, Safety Radio Certificate and any such certificate that is limited, modified or restricted by an Exemption Certificate;
"security level" means the quantification of the degree of risk that a security incident will be attempted or will occur;
"security incident" means any suspicious act or circumstance threatening the security of —
a ship, including a mobile offshore drilling unit and a high speed craft;
a port facility;
a ship or port interface; or
a ship to ship activity;
"ship or port interface" means the interactions that occur when a ship is directly and immediately affected by actions involving the movement of persons, goods or the provision of port services to or from the ship;
"ship-to-ship activity" means any activity not related to a port facility that involves the transfer of goods or persons from one ship to another;
"short international voyage" means an international voyage —
in the course of which a ship is not more than two hundred nautical miles from a port or place in which the passenger and crew could be placed in safety; and
which does not exceed six hundred nautical miles in length between the last port of call and the final destination, no account being taken of any deviation by a ship from its intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstances that neither the master, owner nor charterer, if any, of the ship could reasonably have prevented or forestalled;
"tanker" means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature, and its age shall be determined from the year of build as indicated on its certificate of registry.

Defined Terms

anniversary datecargo shipCargo Ship Safety Construction CertificateCargo Ship Safety Equipment CertificateCargo Ship Safety Radio CertificateCargo Ship Safety CertificatePassenger Ship Safety Certificatecertificatecompanyfishing vesselintentional unlawful actinternational voyagemaritime securityPassenger CertificateCayman Islands Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificateport facilityradio installationradio-navigational equipmentSafety Convention countrySafety Convention Certificatesecurity levelsecurity incidentship or port interfaceship-to-ship activityshort international voyagetanker

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