Section 2 in The Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules, 1969
2. Definitions.
- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-(a)"Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958);(b)"accommodation spaces" means passenger spaces, corridors, lavatories, cabins, offices, crew spaces, barber shops, isolated pantries, lockers and other similar spaces;(c)"cargo spaces" means all spaces used for cargo (including cargo oil tanks) and trunks to all such spaces;(d)"control station" includes those spaces in which radio, main navigating or central fire recording equipment or the emergency generator is located;(e)"crew spaces" means accommodation provided for the exclusive use of the crew;(f)"length" in relation to a registered ship means the registered length and in relation to an unregistered ship means the length from the fore part of the stem to the aft side of the head of the stern post or, if no stem post is fitted to take the rudder to the fore side of the rudder stock, to the point where the rudder passes out of the hull;(g)"machinery spaces" includes all spaces used for propelling, auxiliary, or refrigerating machinery, boilers, pumps, workshops, generators, ventilation and air-conditioning machinery, oil tilling station and similar spaces and trunk ways to such spaces;(h)"oil fired boiler" means any boiler wholly or partly fired by liquid fuel not being a domestic boiler of less than 63,000 kilocalories per hour;(i)"oil fuel unit" means all equipments used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to the oil burners of an oil fired boiler and includes the oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters;(j)"passenger spaces" means the spaces provided for the use of passengers;(k)"Schedule" means a Schedule to these rules;(l)"service space" includes galleys, main pantries, laundries, store rooms, paint rooms, baggage rooms, mail rooms, bullion rooms, carpenters and plumbers workshops, and trunk ways loading to such spaces;(m)"settling tank" means an oil storage tank provided with a heating surface not less than 0.180 squaremetre per ton of oil capacity;(n)"short international yoyage" means an international voyage in the course of which a vessel is not more than 200 miles from any port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety and which does not exceed 600 miles in length between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination;(o)"tons" in relation to the tonnage of a ship means gross tons.
