Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires“cruise ship” means a passenger ship employed in the carriage of passengers primarily on international voyages; “cruise ship passenger” means a passenger arriving in Belize from a foreign port and leaving Belize within forty-eight hours after arrival on the same vessel by which he arrived; “cruise ship passenger tax” means the tax levied and payable under section 4; “Fort Street Tourism Village” means the land designated by the Government as the official port of entry of cruise ship passengers to Belize District, under and by virtue of a contract with the Government of Belize and the Belize Tourism Board; “Fort Street Tourism Village Limited” means the company duly formed and established under the laws of Belize that owns and operates the Fort Street Tourism Village; “manifested cruise ship passenger” means a cruise ship passenger whose name appears or would be entitled to appear on the passenger manifest for the voyage on which the passenger is carried, and who is not excluded from the payment of cruise ship passenger tax under section 4(5); 5 “passenger” means any person carried on a ship other than– (a) the master, an apprentice, a member of the crew or a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of the ship; (b) a child under one year of age; or (c) a person carried on the ship in pursuance of the obligation laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked, distressed or other persons, or by reason of any circumstances which neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) could have prevented or forestalled; “passenger ship” means a ship carrying or capable of carrying more than twelve passengers; “resident passenger” means a passenger who, for the purposes of the Immigration Act is deemed to be a citizen of Belize or to possess permanent residency in Belize; “ship” includes every description of vessel used in navigation.