Carrying Unit
Any device or receptacle in or on which cargo is carried including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any container, trailer, flat, tank or similar receptacle which is owned or leased by a Member and which is either intended to be or is or has been carried on an entered ship or in respect of which the Member has entered into a contract of through carriage.
Container
Containers constructed in accordance with the recommendations of the International Standards Organisation and complying with the requirements of the International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972, as amended.
Customary Towage
Towage for the purpose of entering or leaving port or manoeuvring within the port during the ordinary course of trading and/or the towage of such entered ships (e.g. barges) as are habitually towed in the ordinary course of their trading from port to port or from place to place and have been declared as such in writing to the Managers.
Deviation
A departure from the contractually agreed voyage or adventure which deprives the Member of the right to rely on a defence, exemption to right to limitation which would otherwise have been available to him.
General Rules
The General Rules for the time being of the Association.
The Hague-Visby Rules
The International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Bills of Lading signed at Brussels on 25th August 1924 as amended by the Protocol to that Convention signed at Brussels on 23rd February 1968.
Master
The Master of an entered ship or the substitute for or the replacement of such Master engaged under a written contract of employment or contract of service to serve on board the entered ship concerned.
Member of The Crew
Any person ( including apprentices but excepting the Master and any persons engaged only for nominal pay) engaged under a written contract of employment of contract of service to serve on board the entered ship concerned including a substitute for such person and also such persons whilst proceeding to or from such ship.
Passenger
A person carried on board an entered ship by virtue of holding a passenger ticket.
Personal Effects
Clothes, documents, navigational or other technical instruments and tools but excluding cash, valuables or any articles which in the opinion of the Managers are not an essential requirement for the Master or a member of the crew as the case may be.
Proper Value
The value for which an entered ship should in the opinion of the Managers be insured as determined by the Managers in their discretion. For the purpose of this definition, the Managers are entitled to take account of whether the Hull and Machinery and/or Excess Liability policies of such ship have been the subject of periodic review in the light of market conditions, so that the total amount of liability cover provided by those policies is maintained at all times at a figure which is as near as possible to the equivalent of the free uncommitted market value of the ship, but in no event less than the aggregate of the limits of liability set out in the International Convention relating to the Limitation of Liability of Owners for Marine Claims, 1976, and any revisions thereof.
NB: Members are therefore recommended to confer with their brokers and/or ship values in order to assess, in the light of the above, the total amount for which collision liability insurance should be arranged. Provided the necessary insurance is arranged on the basis of the advice received, the Managers will usually give favourable consideration to the insured value being the proper value.
The Rules
The General Rules and the Class I Rules.
Supernumerary
A relative of the Master or of a member of the crew, or any other person whom a Member has agreed to maintain or carry on board an entered ship (except a passenger) including persons engaged under a contract of employment or contract of service for nominal pay.
