"approved cold storage"

shall mean cold storage approved by the Board in terms of regulation 11;

"carrying temperature"

shall mean the temperature which is indicated under the heading 'Commodity temperature' in the third column of the table to regulation 41;

[Definition inserted by regulation 2 of Notice No. R. 2595, GG 12829, dated 9 November 1990]

"chairman"

shall mean a chairman in terms of section 6 of the Act or a chairman of a committee, as the case may be;

"classification society"

shall mean a society registered with the International Association of Classification Societies and acknowledged by the Board;

"committee"

shall mean a committee in terms of section 11(e) of the Act;

"container"

shall mean standardised intermodal equipment intended for carrying cargo at sea, on land or in the air, consisting of a large metal or glass-reinforced plastic box in which several packages can be stowed, and capable of being loaded, stowed and discharged as a unit;

"conventional refrigeration vessel"

shall mean a vessel designed to carry perishable products in a refrigerated atmosphere in break bulk or on pallets;

"cooling plant"

shall mean a facility designed to reduce the flesh temperature of perishable products from the ambient temperature to the carrying temperature prescribed in regulation 41 and to maintain the latter temperature;

"loading completed"

shall mean the point at which a vessel, having loaded all the products that it is engaged to carry or can physically carry, closes its main hatch covers;

"logbook"

shall mean the document or register, with all pages numbered consecutively in which particulars of the temperature of the product or the space and all operational details of the cooling machinery are recorded at regular intervals;

"natural ventilator"

shall mean an apparatus allowing a ship's hold to be naturally and non-mechanically ventilated;

"properly precooled"

shall mean the condition of a consignment or space the whole of which registers the carrying temperature prescribed in regulation 41;

"representative"

shall mean a member, official or employee of the Board acting on a written authorisation of the Board;

"satisfactory storage conditions",

in relation to a perishable product, shall mean the conditions under which these regulations require such product to be stowed prior to export;

"temperature tolerance time (TIT)"

shall mean the length of time for which a perishable product may be left at a specified temperature with no further cooling and with no marked rise in temperature that could lead to any deterioration of such product.

The Board and Committees

Exporters

Foreign Perishable Products

Cold Stores

Levies

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