PART 11
LOAD LINES
306. Interpretation
For the purpose of this Part—
“Convention country” means a country the Government of which is a party to the Load Line Convention and which has not denounced that Convention, or a territory of such country to which the Convention extends and remains extended;
“existing ship” means a ship which is not a new ship;
“fishing vessel” means a ship used for catching fish, whales, seals, walrus or other living resources of the sea;
“international voyage” means a voyage between—
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(a) a port or place in Saint Lucia and a Port or place outside Saint Lucia; or
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(b) a port in a Convention country, other than Saint Lucia, and a port in any other country or territory thereof, whether or not a Convention country, which is outside Saint Lucia provided however, that in determining the ports between which a voyage is made, no account shall be taken of any deviation by a ship from its intended voyage which is due solely to stress of weather or other circumstances that neither the master nor the charterer, if any, of the ship could have prevented or forestalled;
“Load Lines Convention” means the International Convention on Load Lines 1966 and any amendments thereto which the Minister may, by order made by statutory instrument, declare to be in effect for Saint Lucia;
“Load Lines Convention ship” means an international Load Line ship belonging to a country to which the Load Lines Convention applies;
“Load Lines Regulations” means the Regulations made by the Minister to give effect to the Load Lines Convention;
“Load Line ship” means—
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(a) an international Load Line ship, that is to say, an existing ship of not less than 150 gross tons or a new ship of 24 metres or more in length which carries cargo or passengers on international voyages; and
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(b) a local Load Line ship, that is to say, a ship, other than an international Load Line ship, which carries cargo or passengers;
“new ship” means a ship whose keel is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after—
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(a) in the case of a ship registered in or flying the flag of a Convention country, the date from which the Load Lines Convention entered into force for that country;
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(b) in the case of a ship registered in or flying the flag of a country which has declared that the Load Lines Convention applies to that country's ships, the date of such declaration; or
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(c) in the case of any other ship, the date of the coming into force of this Act.