1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Detection and Extinguishing Equipment Regulations.

• 2. (1) In these Regulations,

  “Act”

  “Act” means the Canada Shipping Act; (Loi)

  “approved”

  “approved” means approved by the Board; (approuvé)

  “Board”

  “Board” means the Board of Steamship Inspection created pursuant to Part VIII of the Act; (Bureau)

  “certificate”

  “certificate” means a certificate of inspection issued by an inspector under the Act; (certificat ou brevet)

  “Chairman”

  “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board; (président)

  “combination carrier”

  “combination carrier” means a tanker designed to carry, in bulk, oil or solid cargoes; (transporteur combiné)

  “deadweight”

  “deadweight” means the difference in tonnes between the weight of water of a specific gravity of 1.025 displaced by a ship loaded to the load water line corresponding to the assigned summer freeboard and the weight of such water displaced by the ship without cargo, fuel, lubricating oil, ballast water, fresh water or feedwater in tanks, consumable stores, passengers, crew and their effects; (port en lourd)

  “Divisional Supervisor”

  “Divisional Supervisor” means the officer of the Department of Transport in charge of a Steamship Inspection Division and includes the Regional Superintendent of a Steamship Inspection Division; (surveillant divisionnaire)

  “existing ship”

  “existing ship” means a ship that is not a new ship; (navire existant)

  “inspector”

  “inspector” means a steamship inspector appointed under the Act; (inspecteur)

  “launch”

  “launch” means a steamship in which the passengers are carried in an open cockpit or in a cockpit covered by a light trunk cabin, but does not include a cabin cruiser; (chaloupe)

  “length”

  “length” means

  • (a) in the case of a ship that is registered under the Act or required by the Act to be registered,

    • (i) the distance from the forepart of the uppermost end of the stem to the aft side of the head of the stern post, except that if a stern post is not fitted to the ship the measurement shall be taken to the foreside of the head of the rudder stock,

    • (ii) if the ship has no rudder stock or has a rudder stock situated outside of the hull at the stern, the distance from the foreside of the foremost permanent structure to the aft side of the aftermost permanent structure of the ship, not including guards or rubbing strakes, or

    • (iii) if the ship is double-ended, the distance from the aft side of the forward rudder stock to the foreside of the after rudder stock,

  • (b) in the case of a ship that is not required by the Act to be registered, the horizontal distance measured between perpendiculars erected at the extreme ends of the outside of the hull, and

  • (c) in the case of a Safety Convention passenger ship, for the purpose of paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule II, the horizontal distance measured between perpendiculars erected at the extreme ends of the deepest subdivision load line; (longueur)

  “machinery space”

  “machinery space” means any space within the main hull of a ship that contains the propelling or auxiliary machinery, including pumping units, boilers when installed, and all permanent coal bunkers; (tranche des machines)

  “new ship”

  “new ship” means

  • (a) a ship of over five tons, gross tonnage, that is

    • (i) a Safety Convention ship the keel of which was laid on or after November 19, 1952,

    • (ii) a ship, not being a Safety Convention ship, the keel of which was laid on or after March 15, 1956, or

    • (iii) a foreign ship, not being a Safety Convention ship, that is brought under Canadian registry on or after March 15, 1956,

  • (b) a ship not over five tons, gross tonnage, that is certified to carry more than 12 passengers, the construction of which was commenced on or after March 19, 1964; (navire neuf)

  “passenger”

  “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 steamship”

  “passenger steamship” means a steamship carrying passengers and in the case of a Safety Convention ship, a steamship carrying more than 12 passengers; (navire à vapeur à passagers)

  “pleasure yacht”

  “pleasure yacht” means a ship however propelled that is used exclusively for pleasure and does not carry passengers; (yacht de plaisance)

  “Safety Convention ship”

  “Safety Convention ship” means a ship to which the Safety Convention applies; (navire ressortissant à la Convention de sécurité)

  “steamship”

  “steamship” means any ship propelled by machinery and not coming within the definition of sailing ship as defined in the Act; (navire à vapeur)

  “tanker”

  “tanker” means a steamship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of a flammable nature. (navire-citerne)

• (2) Other words and expressions in these Regulations have the same meaning as in the Act.