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Merchant Shipping Act

(Chapter 179, Section 47)

Merchant Shipping (Deck Officers) Regulations

Rg 13

REVISED EDITION 1997

(15th June 1997)

[1st June 1994]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Deck Officers) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“certificate of competency” means a certificate of competency issued by the Director under these Regulations or a certificate which is treated as equivalent to such a certificate by virtue of regulation 6, but does not include a certificate of competency issued by a foreign maritime administration;

“certificate of recognition” means a certificate of recognition issued by the Director under regulation 7(1);”.

“certificate of service” means a certificate of service issued by the Director under regulation 5(2) of the revoked Regulations;

“foreign-going ship” includes every ship employed in trading or going between some place or places in Singapore and some place or places situated beyond the limits prescribed for home-trade ships;

“home-trade ship” means a ship plying solely upon a home-trade voyage;

“home-trade voyage” means a voyage within the following limits:

an imaginary line drawn from a position in the Gulf of Martaban in latitude 16° 15′ north, longitude 96° east in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude 15° north, longitude 97° east, thence due south to a position in latitude 9° north, longitude 97° east, thence in a south-westerly direction to a position in latitude 6° north, longitude 94° east, thence due south to a position in latitude 4° north, longitude 94° east, thence in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude 8° south, longitude 104° east, thence in an easterly direction to a position in latitude 10° south, longitude 120° east, thence due east to a position in latitude 10° south, longitude 125° east, thence due north to a position in latitude 8° north, longitude 125° east, thence due west to a position in latitude 8° north, longitude 110° east, thence in a 315° direction (N.W. true) to the coast of Vietnam, thence initially westward following the coasts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the West Malaysia and Myanmar to the starting point;

“location” includes any offshore installation, any other installation (whether floating or resting on the sea-bed or the subsoil thereof) or any location at sea defined by reference to its latitude and longitude;

“qualified deck officer” means an officer of the deck department who is qualified in accordance with regulation 4(2);

“revoked Regulations” means the Merchant Shipping (Deck Officers) Regulations (Rg 13, 1990 Ed.) which were in force immediately before 1st June 1994;

“special limit voyage” means a voyage within the following limits:

from a point where the longitude 103° 00′ East cuts the West coast of Johor, thence due South to latitude 00° 30′ North, thence due East to longitude 105° 00′ East, thence due North to latitude 01° 00′ North, thence to the point 02° 00′ North, 104° 15′ East, thence due West to the coast of Johor and thence following the coast of Johor westwards to the starting point;

“tons” means gross tonnage.

Application

3. These Regulations shall apply to all self-propelled ships registered in Singapore.