The following terms, wherever mentioned in this Regulation, shall have the meanings indicated next to them unless the context requires otherwise:

• 1. The State: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• 2. The Maritime Authority: The Transport General Authority represented in the maritime transport sector or one of its branches or representatives or any person authorized by it to act on its behalf.

• 3. The Organization: The International Maritime Organization (IMO).

• 4. The Agreement: The International Convention on the Measurement of Ships' Tonnage of 1969.

• 5. The Regulations: The materials and texts contained in the appendices of the Agreement and the codes attached to it.

• 6. The Regulation: The Implementing Regulation of the International Convention on the Measurement of Ships' Tonnage of 1969.

• 7. The International Voyage: A maritime journey from a port within the Kingdom to a port in another country or vice versa.

• 8. Gross Tonnage: The total volume dimensions of the ship measured according to the provisions of the current Agreement.

• 9. Net Tonnage: The volume dimensions utilized by the ship measured according to the provisions of the current Agreement.

• 10. The New Ship: A ship for which a construction contract has been concluded, or a ship with an extended keel, or one that is at a similar stage of construction at the time the relevant texts come into force or thereafter, or one for which a specific delivery date has been set according to these texts.

• 11. The Existing Ship: A ship that does not fall under the category of new ships.

• 12. Length: Equivalent to (96%) of the total length of the waterline at (85%) of the minimum depth formed for the ship measured from the top of its keel, or the length between the front side of the ship's bow and the rudder's axis on the mentioned waterline, whichever is greater. In the case of ships designed with a sloping keel, the waterline from which this length is measured must be parallel to the design waterline, and the length is measured in meters.

• 13. The Company: The legal entity responsible for operating the ship and carrying out all other tasks and responsibilities under the Agreement, whether it is the owner, manager, or charterer without crew.

1- This Regulation shall apply to ships flying the Saudi flag and engaged in international voyages wherever they are located and on the foreign ships that entering the state territorial waters.

2- This Regulation shall apply to the following:

• a- The ships registered in the Kingdom.

• b- New Ships.

• c- The existing ships subject to alterations or modifications that the Maritime Authority deems to be a substantial modification in their existing gross tonnage. existing ships which undergo alterations or modifications which the Administration deems to be a substantial variation in their existing gross tonnage

• d- The existing ships, if their owners so requests.

• e- All the existing ships, twelve years after the date of entry into force of the Convention, such ships shall, except as provided in clauses (c) and (d) of this paragraph, retain their existing tonnage at that time for the purposes of implementation the relevant requirements of the other existing international Conventions thereof.

3- For Existing ships to which the present Convention has been applied in accordance with subparagraph (2)(c) of this Article shall not subsequently have their tonnages determined in accordance with the requirements which the Maritime Authority applied to ships on international voyages prior to the coming into force of the present Convention

This Regulation shall not apply to the following:

• 1- The Warships.

• 2- The Ships of less than 24 meters in length.

• 3- The Ships operating in the Great Lakes of North America as well as those operating in the Caspian Sea.

1- A ship which is not subject to the provisions of the present Convention at the time of its departure on any voyage shall not become subject to such provisions on account of any deviation from its intended voyage due to stress of weather or any other cause of force majeure.

2- In applying the provisions of the present Convention, the Contracting Governments shall give due consideration to any deviation or delay caused to any ship owing to stress of weather or any other cause of force majeure.

the Maritime Authority shall carry out the determination of gross and net tonnages and issue of Tonnage Certificate which may, however, entrust such determination either to persons or organizations recognized by it

1- The Maritime Authority may, at the request of a State Party in the Convention, determine the gross and net tonnage of a ship flying its flag or grant and authorize an organization to issue of the Certificate in accordance with the provisions of the Convention.

2- The Maritime Authority shall promptly provide the flag State of the ship referred to in the previous paragraph of this Article, a copy of the certificate and another copy of the tonnage calculations

3- The certificate issued under paragraph (1) of this article shall include the following data:

• a- A proof that it was issued at the request of the State which the ship is flying/will fly its flag.

• b- An indication that it has the same legal power of the certificate issued by the Maritime Authority to the ships that is flying the Saudi flag and that it receives the same recognition.

1- The certificate shall not be issued to a ship which is not flying the flag of a State not party to the Convention. No International Tonnage Certificate (1969) shall be issued to a ship which is flying the flag of a State the Government of which is not a Contracting Government.

2- International Tonnage Certificate (1966) shall be issued to each ship whose gross and net tonnage is determined in accordance with the Convention.

3- The privileges of the present regulation may not be claimed in favor of any ship unless it holds a valid international tonnage certificate.

1- A Contracting Government may, at the request of another Contracting Government, determine the gross and net tonnages of a ship Party to the Convention to determine gross and net tonnage of a Saudi ship and to issue or authorize the issue the International Tonnage Certificate (1969) to the ship in accordance with Convention.

2- The Government shall send a copy of the certificate and a copy of the calculations of the tonnages to the Maritime Authority as soon as possible.

3- A certificate so issued shall contain a statement to the effect that it has been issued at the request of the Maritime Authority and that it has the same validity as a certificate issued under article (v) of this regulation and has the same recognition.

The certificate shall be issued in correspond to that of the model given in in appendix II of the Convention and in Arabic and English language.

1- Subject to any exceptions provided in the Regulations, the maritime authority shall cancel the certificate if alterations have taken place in the arrangement, construction, capacity, use of spaces, total number of passengers the ship is permitted to carry as indicated in the ship's passenger certificate, assigned load line or permitted draught of the ship, that would necessitate an increase in gross tonnage or net tonnage

2- A certificate issued to a ship by the Maritime Authority shall cease to be valid upon transfer of such a ship to the flag of another State.

3- Upon transfer of a ship to the flag of another State the Government of which is a Contracting Government, the International Tonnage Certificate shall remain in force for a period not exceeding three months, or until the maritime authority of the another State issues another International Tonnage Certificate to replace it, whichever is the earlier.