•section 15;
(25)“Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Convention” means
•the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims signed in
•London on the 19th day of November, 1976;
(26)“Maritime Labour Convention” means the Maritime Labour
•Convention signed in Geneva on the 23rd day of February, 2006;
(27)“MARPOL Convention” means the International Convention for
•the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 including its Protocol of 1978;
(28)“master” includes any person (except a pilot or a harbour master)
•having command or charge of a vessel;
(29)“mortgage” means the transfer of an interest in a registered vessel
•or a share therein for the purpose of securing the payment of money
•advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, or other valuable consideration,
•and the instrument creating the security, an existing or future debt, or the
•performance of an agreement which may give rise to a pecuniary liability;
(30)“nautical advisor” means the nautical advisor specified in
•sub-clause (i) of clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 8;
(31)“notification” means a notification published in the Official
•Gazette and the term “notify” or “notified” shall be construed accordingly;
(32)“owner”, in relation to a vessel, means the person to whom the
•vessel or a share in the vessel belongs;
(33)“passenger” means any person carried onboard a vessel, except—
(a)a person employed or engaged in any capacity onboard the
•vessel on the business of the vessel;
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(b)a person onboard the vessel either in pursuance of the
•obligations laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other
•persons or by reason of any circumstances which neither the master nor
•the charterer, if any, could have prevented or forestalled; and
(c)a child under one year of age;
(34)“passenger vessel” means a vessel carrying more than twelve
•passengers;
(35)“pollution damage” means,—
(a)loss or damage caused outside the vessel resulting from the
•escape, emission or discharge of cargo, oil or any other material from
•the vessel, wherever such escape, emission or discharge may occur; or
(b)the costs of impairment of environment or costs of
•preventive measures and further loss or damage caused by preventive
•measures;
(36)“pollution prevention convention” means any convention relating
•to prevention of pollution from vessels, to which India is a party, including
•MARPOL Convention, Anti-Fouling Systems Convention and Ballast Water
•Management Convention;
(37)“port” shall include port f acility, shipyard, ship breaking yards,
•ship repair unit, offshore facilities and terminals;
(38)“port authority”,—
(a)in relation to any major port, means the Board of Major Port
•Authority constituted under section 3 of the Major Port Authorities
•Act, 2021;
(b)in relation to any other port, means such person or body of
•persons responsible for the administration of ports under any other
•applicable law;
(c)in relation to any terminal or place not forming a part of a
•port, means the person under who se supervision the terminal or place
•is operated;
(39)“port facility” means any location or area including anchorages
•or awaiting berths or approaches from seaward as determined by the Central
•Government, or such designated authority as the Central Gover nment may
•notify, where interface between vessels or a vessel and a port takes place;
(40)“port of registry” means the port or place notified as such under
•sub-section ( 3) of section 1 5 and in relation to a vessel, sailing vessel,
•fishing vessel or any o ther vessel, means the port at which such vessel is
•registered;
(41)“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Central
•Government under this Act;
(42)“principal officer” means the principal officer appointed under
•sub-section (2) of section 11;
(43)“proceeding” includes any suit, appeal or application under this
•Act;
(44)“proper officer” means the officer designated by the Central
•Government to be the proper officer at the port or place and in respect of
•the matters to which reference is made in this Act;
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(45)“proper return port” means such port as is agreed upon by the
•seafarer and his employer, in the agreement or otherwise, or in the absence of
•an agreement, the port where the seafarer was employed or joined the vessel;
(46)“property”, in relation to a seafarer, includes personal effects;
(47)“reception facilities”, in relation to a port, terminal, shipyard,
•ship repair facility or ship recycling facility, means facilities for enabling
•vessels using the port t erminal, shipyard, ship repair facility or ship
•recycling facility to discharge or deposit any substance;
(48)“Registrar” means the Registrar of Indian vessel referred to in
