6ATonnage length

6A Tonnage length (1) For the purposes of subsection 10 (3) of the Act, the tonnage length of a ship is: (a) a length equal to 96 per cent of the total length of the ship measured on a waterline that is at a distance, from the top of the keel, equal to 85 per cent of the least moulded depth of the ship; or (b) if the length of the ship measured from the fore side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock on that waterline is greater than the length ascertained in accordance with paragraph (a) — that greater length. (2) In the case of a ship designed with a rake of keel, the waterline on which the total length of the ship is to be measured for the purposes of subregulation (1) must be parallel to the designed waterline. (3) In this regulation, least moulded depth of a ship means the shortest measurable moulded depth of the ship.