Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act 1932

38 Interpretation of Part I.

In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—

• " Construction regulations " means such of the regulations made under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act as prescribe the matters with respect to which a surveyor of ships must be satisfied before he states in a declaration of survey that a passenger steamer is fit to ply on any particular voyages or class of voyages specified in the regulations;

• " Country to which the Safety Convention applies " means—

  (a)

  a country the Government of which has been declared under the last foregoing section to have ratified, or acceded to, the Safety Convention, and has not been so declared to have denounced that Convention;

  (b)

  a country to which it has been so declared that the Safety Convention has been applied under the provisions of Article sixty-two thereof, not being a country to which it has been so declared that that Convention has ceased to apply under the provisions of that Article;

• " Declaration of survey " means a declaration made under section two hundred and seventy-two of the principal Act;

• " International voyage " means a voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, either of those countries being a country to which the Safety Convention applies, " short international voyage " means an international voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than two hundred miles from land, and " international coasting voyage" means an international voyage in the course of which a ship does not go more than twenty miles from land, so however that for the purpose of this provision—

  (a)

  no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from her intended voyage due solely to stress of weather or any other circumstance which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled; and

  (b)

  every colony, overseas territory, protectorate or territory under suzerainty, and every territory in respect of which a mandate has been accepted on behalf of the League of Nations, shall be deemed to be a separate country;

• " Rules for life-saving appliances " means the rules made under section four hundred and twenty-seven of the principal Act;

• " Safety Convention ship " means a ship belonging to a country to which the Safety Convention applies, and the expression "Safety Convention passenger steamer" shall be construed accordingly;

• " Special passenger trade " means a trade in relation to which the Board of Trade have modified the construction regulations or the rules for life-saving appliances in pursuance of this Part of this Act;

• " Survey regulations " means such of the regulations made under section seven hundred and twenty-four of the principal Act as prescribe the manner in which surveys of passenger steamers are to be made;

• " Wireless telegraphy rules " means the rules made under subsection (2) of section one of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraphy) Act, 1919.