Hull Construction Regulations — 2
sferred to registry in Canada after February 7, 1958; ( navire neuf ) passenger means any person carried on a ship, but does not include (a) a person carried on a Safety Convention ship who is (i) the master or a member of the crew or a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of that ship, or (ii) a child under one year of age, (b) a person carried on a ship that is not a Safety Convention ship who is (i) the master or a member of the crew, or a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of that ship, (ii) the owner or charterer of the ship, a member of his family or a servant connected with his household, (iii) a guest of the owner or charterer of the ship if it is used exclusively for pleasure and the guest is carried on the ship without remuneration or any object of profit, or (iv) a child under one year of age, or (c) a person carried on any ship in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons or by reason of any circumstances that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer, if any, could have prevented or forestalled; ( passager ) passenger ship means a ship carrying passengers, and passenger steamship means a steamship carrying passengers and in the case of a Safety Convention ship means a steamship carrying more than 12 passengers; ( navire à passagers ) passenger space means space provided for the use of passengers; ( espace à passagers ) permeability , in relation to a space, means the percentage of that space below the ship’s margin line that, on the assumption that it is in use for the purpose for which it is appropriated, can be occupied by water; ( perméabilité ) public rooms [Repealed, SOR/2017-14, s. 400] radiotelegraph room [Repealed, SOR/2000-264, s. 1] Safety Convention ship means a ship to which the Safety Convention applies; ( navire ressortissant à la Convention de sécurité ) service space includes galleys, main pantries, laundries, store rooms, paint rooms, baggage rooms, mail rooms, bullion rooms, carpenters’ and plumbers’ workshops, and trunkways leading to such spaces; ( locaux de service ) ship [Repealed, SOR/95-254, s. 1] short international voyage means an international voyage from a port in one country to a port in another country, in the course of which a ship is not more than 200 nautical miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew may be placed in safety, and which does not exceed 600 nautical miles in length between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination; ( voyage international court ) standard fire test [Repealed, SOR/2017-14, s. 400] steamship means a ship propelled by machinery; ( navire à vapeur ) subdivision load water line means the water line assumed in determining the subdivision of the ship in accordance with these Regulations; ( ligne de charge de compartimentage ) superstructure means, except in Part VIII, a decked structure above the bulkhead deck (a) extending from side to side of the ship, or (b) the side plating of which is not inboard of the shell plating by more than four per cent of the breadth of the ship; ( superstructure ) watertight , in relation to a structure, means the structure is capable of preventing the passage of water through it in any direction, under a head of water up to the ship’s margin line; ( étanche ) weathertight , in relation to a structure, means the structure is capable of preventing the passage of sea water through it in ordinary sea conditions. ( étanche aux intempéries ) SOR/78-605, s. 1; SOR/81-86, s. 1; SOR/83-521, s. 1; SOR/90-240, s. 1; SOR/95-254, ss. 1, 32; SOR/2000-264, s. 1; SOR/2017-14, s. 400