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(Cap 415, section 13)* [2 September 1983] (L.N. 281 of 1983) _________________________________________________________________________________ Note: * These regulations were made under Merchant Shipping Act 1965 (1965 C. 47) section 1 (as adapted and modified by the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Hong Kong) Order 1967 and the Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) (Hong Kong) Order 1982). See sections 13 and 104(1)(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance, enacted in 1990 (Cap 415). Cap 415C reg 1 Citation PART I GENERAL These regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Registration) (Tonnage) Regulations. (74 of 1990 Sch. 5) Cap 415C reg 2 Interpretation In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "Administration" (主管当局) means the Government of the state whose flag the ship is flying; "amidships" (船舯) means the mid point of the length (as defined below); "breadth" (宽度) 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; "cargo spaces" (载货舱位) means enclosed spaces which are included in the computation of gross tonnage and are appropriated for the transport of cargo to be discharged from the ship and which are permanently marked with the letters "CC" (cargo compartment) (舱室), such letters being not less than 100 millimetres in height and so positioned as to be readily visible; "Certifying Authority" (核准当局) means a Certifying Authority referred to in regulation 2A; (74 of 1990 Sch. 5) "Contracting Government" (缔约国政府) means the Government of a country which has accepted the Convention; "Convention" (公约) means the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969; "Director" (处长) means the Director of Marine and includes any person deputed or authorized by the Director to exercise any power or perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him under these regulations; "enclosed spaces" (围蔽舱位) means all those spaces, other than excluded spaces, which are bounded by the ship's hull, by fixed or portable partitions or bulkheads, or by decks or coverings other than permanent or moveable awnings. No break in a deck, nor any opening in the ship's hull, in a deck or in a covering of a space, or in the partitions or bulkheads of a space, nor the absence of a partition or bulkhead, shall preclude a space from being included in the enclosed spaces; and for the purposes of this definition "excluded spaces" (免除舱位) means any of the following spaces- (a) that part of an enclosed space within an erection opposite an end opening and extending from the opening to an athwartship line at a fore and aft distance from the opening equal to half the breadth of the deck at the line of the opening. Such end opening shall have a breadth equal to or greater than 90 per cent of the breadth of the deck at the line of the opening and shall extend from deck to deck or to a curtain plate of a depth not exceeding by more than 25 millimetres the depth of the adjacent deck beams, as specified in figure 1 of Schedule 2 hereto: Provided that- (i) where at any point the width of the enclosed space, because of any arrangement except convergence of the outside plating, as specified in figure 3 of Schedule 2 hereto, becomes less than 90 per cent of the breadth of the deck at the line of the opening, the excluded space shall extend only to an athwartship line intersecting that point, as specified in figures 2 and 4 of Schedule 2 hereto; (ii) where the opposite ends of 2 enclosed spaces are separated by a gap, which is completely open except for bulwarks or open rails and of fore and aft length less than half the least breadth of the deck at the gap, then no part of the enclosed spaces shall be excluded, as specified in figures 5 and 6 of Schedule 2 hereto;(b) a space under an overhead deck covering open to the sea and weather, having no other connection on the exposed sides with the body of the ship than the stanchions necessary for its support. In such a space, open rails or a bulwark and curtain plate may be fitted or stanchions fitted at the ship's side, provided that the distance between the top of the rails or the bulwark and the curtain plate is not less than 0.75 metres or one-third of the height of the space, whichever is the greater, as specified in figure 7 of Schedule 2 hereto; (c) a space in a side-to-side erection between opposite side openings not less in height than 0.75 metres or one-third of the height of the erection, whichever is the greater. If the opening in such an erection is provided on one side only, the space to be excluded from the volume of enclosed spaces shall be limited inboard from the opening to a maximum of one half of the breadth of the deck in way of the opening, as specified in figure 8 of Schedule 2 hereto; (d) a space in an erection immediately below an uncovered opening in the deck overhead, provided that such an opening is exposed to the weather and the space excluded from enclosed spaces is limited to the area of the opening, as specified in figure 9 of Schedule 2 hereto; |