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"appropriate certificate" means a certificate issued and endorsed in accordance with these Regulations and entitling the lawful holder thereof to serve in the capacity and perform the functions involved at the level of responsibility specified therein on a ship of the type, tonnage or power and means of propulsion indicated by the endorsement while engaged on the particular voyage concerned;

"approved" means approved by the Director;

"certificate of competency" means a certificate issued by the Director to a candidate who, to the satisfaction of the Director, meets the requirements for service, age, medical fitness, training, qualification and examinations in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the STCW Code;

"certificate of proficiency" means an appropriate certificate issued by an approved training institute conducting courses, in accordance with Chapters

V and VI of the STCW Code;

"chief engineer officer" means the senior engineer officer responsible for the mechanical propulsion and the operation and maintenance of the mechanical and electrical installations of the ship;

"chief mate" means the officer next in rank to the master and upon whom the command of the ship will fall in the event of the incapacity of the master;

"company" means the owner of the ship or any other organisation or person such as the manager, or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ship from the shipowner and who, on assuming such responsibility, has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed on the company by the Convention;

"Convention" means the International Convention on Standards of Training,

Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978, as amended;

"Examination Centre" means a centre designated by the Director responsible for examination and assessment of candidates and maintaining records;

"examiner" means a person appointed by the Director to be an examiner of masters, officers and ratings;

"foreign-going ship" means every ship employed in trading or going between some place or places in Brunei Darussalam and some place or places situated beyond the limits prescribed for near-coastal voyages;

"function" means a group of tasks, duties and responsibilities, as specified in the STCW Code, necessary for ship operation, safety of life at sea or protection of the marine environment;

"IMO" means the International Maritime Organisation;

"liquid chemicals" means any liquid chemical listed in the International

Maritime Organisation's "International Code for the Construction and

Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemical in Bulk (IBC Code)", together with any supplements thereto and any amendments which may be made and includes any residues or mixtures containing liquid chemical;

"liquefied gas" means liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) and any of the gases listed in the International Maritime

Organisation's "International Code for the Construction and Equipment of

Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code)", together with any supplements thereto and any amendments which may be made and includes any residues or mixtures containing liquefied gas;

"medical examiner", for the purpose of medical examination, means a registered medical practitioner employed by the Government and if no such examiner is available then any other duly registered medical practitioner;

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.,month" means a calendar month, and the time between any given day in any month and the preceding day of the following month (both days inclusive) shall be considered as one month;

"near-coastal voyages" means the voyages to any port or place in the area within the following limits an imaginary line drawn from a position in the Gulf of Martaban in latitude 16° 15' north, longitude 96° 00' east in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude 15° 00' north, longitude 9r 00' east, thence due south to a position in latitude 09° 00' north, longitude 97° 00' east, thence in a south-westerly direction to a position in latitude 6° 00' north, longitude 94° 00'

east, thence due south to a position in latitude 4° 00' north, longitude 94°

00' east, thence in a south-easterly direction to a position in latitude g 0 00'

south, longitude 104° 00' east, thence in an easterly direction to a position in latitude 10° 00' south, longitude 120° 00' east, thence due east to a position in latitude 10° 00' south, longitude 125° 00' east, 'thence due north to a position in latitude go 00' north, longitude 125° 00' east, thence due west to a position in latitude go 00' north, longitude 110° 00' 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 Malay Peninsular and Myanmar to the starting point, including proximity of safe havens on such voyages;

"officer in charge of an engineering watch" means an engineer officer qualified in accordance with regulation III/1 of the Convention;

"officer in charge of a navigational watch" means a deck officer qualified in accordance with regulation II/1 of the Convention;

"petroleum products" means fuel oil, lubricants, bitumen, wax, industrial spirits, and refined products and any substance having a final boiling point at normal atmospheric pressure of more than 50 degrees Celsius higher than its initial boiling point, produced directly or indirectly from crude petroleum, except liquefied gas and includes any residues or mixtures containing petroleum products;

"power", in relation to a ship, means the brake or shaft power as shown in the ship's register, that is to say, the total continuous rated brake or shaft power of all the propulsion engines, irrespective of whether some of the power may be diverted from the propulsion shafts or whether all the power is normally used;

"qualified officer" means a deck or marine engineer officer who is qualified in accordance with regulation 12;

"rating" means a member of the ship's crew other than the master or a deck officer or a marine engineer officer, as described in regulation 24;

"relevant", in relation to a certificate of competency, means the certificate is, at the material time, valid and in force in relation to the person named in it and is of a class appropriate to the capacity in which the holder is to be employed on a ship;

"ro-ro passenger ship" means a passenger ship with ro-ro cargo spaces or special category spaces as defined in the SOLAS Convention;

"Safe Manning Certificate!! means a document issued by the Director specifying the minimum safe manning required for a ship in compliance with IMO Resolution A.481(XII) and any amendment thereto which may come into force, as described in regulation 25;

"seagoing service" means service on board a ship relevant to the issue of a certificate or other qualification;

"second engineer officer" means the engineer officer next in rank to the chief engineer officer and upon whom the responsibility for the mechanical propulsion and the operation and maintenance of the mechanical and electrical installations of the ship will fall in the event of the incapacity of the chief engineer officer;

"SOLAS Convention" means the International Convention for the Safety of

Life at Sea, 1974 and any amendment made thereto which has come into force and has been accepted by the Government;

"STCW Code" means the Seafarers' 'fraining, Certification and Watchkeeping

(STCW) Code as .adopted by the 1995 Conference Resolution 2, as it may be amended;

"survival craft" includes an approved lifeboat, liferaft or any other craft used for survival at sea;

"tanker" means a ship carrying liquid chemicals or liquefied gas or petroleum products;

"trial" means an experiment or series of experiments, conducted over a limited period, which may involve the use of automated or integrated systems in order to evaluate alternative methods of performing specific duties or satisfying particular arrangements prescribed by the Convention, which would provide at least the same degree of safety and pollution prevention as provided by these Regulations.

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