Definitions

9. DEFINITIONS

In these Rules:

Accident

(a) - "Accident" means any collision, upset, loss overboard of a crew member or similar event causing or likely to cause injury to a crew member or damage to equipment.

Boat

(b) - "Boat" means any practice shell or race day shell owned by the Regatta Committee or, in the context, any other boat owned by or operated under the auspices of the Regatta Committee.

Captain of
the Course

(c) - "Captain of the Course" as defined in Section 7.1.

Chief
Judge/Starter

(d) - "Chief Judge/Starter" means the Regatta official approved on an annual basis by the Regatta Committee to be the chief adjudicator of a racing event in the Time Trial heats and/or Regatta Day events who shall report directly to the Captain of the Course should an adjudication be required and/or requested.

Chief Time
Keeper

(e) - "Chief Time Keeper" means the Regatta official approved on an annual basis by the Regatta Committee to be the chief statistician and compiler of all the times recorded by crews in Time Trial heats and Regatta Race Day events who shall report directly to the Chief Judge/Starter.

Coach

(f) - "Coach" means any member of a crew who serves as an instructor for any crew.

Code of
Conduct

(g) - "Code of Conduct" means the code of conduct established under Section 8 of these Rules.

Coxswain

(h) - "Coxswain" means the member of a crew who is "steers person" of the racing shell.

Intermediate

(i) - "Intermediate" means any oarsperson who shall be under the full age of twenty one (2l) years of age as of December 3l of any particular year in which the Regatta is held.

Intermediate
Crew

(j) - "Intermediate Crew" means a crew in which all of the oarspersons are of intermediate age.

Juvenile

(k) - "Juvenile" means any oarsperson who shall be under the full age of eighteen (l8) years of age as of December 3l of any particular year in which the Regatta is held.

Juvenile
Crew

(l) - "Juvenile Crew" means a crew in which all of the oarspersons are of juvenile age.

Manager

(m) - "Manager" means any person being a member of a crew who controls or manages the activities of the crew.

Master's Race
for Men

(n) - "Master's Race for Men" means a crew whose minimum oarspersons age shall be the full age of forty-six (46) years as of December 31 of any year in which the Regatta is held.

Master's Race
for Women

(o) - "Master's Race for Women" means a crew whose minimum oarsperson age shall be the full age of forty-one (41) years as of December 31 of any year in which the Regatta is held.

Midget

(p) - "Midget" means any oarsperson who shall be under the full age of sixteen (l6) years of age as of December 3lst of any particular year in which the Regatta is held.

Midget Crew

(q) - "Midget Crew" means a crew in which all of the oarspersons are of midget age.

Minimum Age
for any
Oarsperson

(r) - "Minimum Age for any Oarsperson" (male or female) shall be fourteen (14) years of age as of December 31 of any year in which the rowing event is held.

Minimum Age
for any
Coxswain

(s) - "Minimum Age for any Coxswain" (male or female) shall be nineteen (19) years of age as of December 31 of any year in which the rowing event is held.

Oarsperson

(t) - "Oarsperson" means any member of a crew whose primary purpose for membership in the crew is to act as a rower.

Officers

(u) - "Officers" means the Immediate Past President, President, Vice-President(s), Honourary Secretary and or Treasurer of the Regatta Committee. Any reference in these rules to "Secretary" shall mean the "Honourary Secretary."

Officials

(v) - "Officials" means those Regatta Committee members selected by the Captain of the Course required for conducting the Time Trial heats and Regatta Day racing events, which Officials shall include: the Chief Judge/Starter, and Chief Time Keeper, etc.

Participant

(w) - "Participant" means any oarsperson, coxswain, manager, coach, sponsor of a crew or any person taking part in any Regatta Committee activity.

Registration
Card

(x) - "Registration Card" means the registration card established from time to time by the Regatta Committee and required by Rule 3.2 and shall, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, include the following:

1. the name under which the crew intends to row;

2. the name of the crew sponsor (if any);

3. the full names, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers of crew members and shall include a designation of the official representative of the crew.

Rules
Committee

(y) - "Rules Committee" means a formal sub-committee approved by the Board of Directors of The Royal St. John's Regatta Committee whose purpose shall be to compile, revise, recommend, and enforce all officially approved rules and regulations of The Royal St. John's Regatta Committee for the conduct of Time Trial heats, Regatta Day racing events, and other Regatta events/activities that may take place on the pond from time to time.

Senior

(z) - "Senior" means a division/classification wherein all the registered oarspersons of a rowing crew are not rowing as a Midget, Juvenile, or Intermediate crew, as defined under Section 9(q); 9(l); 9(j).

Spare
Oarsperson

(aa) - "Spare Oarsperson" means a registered oarsperson who (at the option of the coxswain and the regular oarsperson) may substitute for any regular registered oarsperson in any Regatta activity, as prescribed by these Rules and as outlined under Rule 1.1 (c).

The Royal
St. John's
Regatta
Committee

(bb) - "The Royal St. John's Regatta Committee" or "Regatta Committee" means The Royal St. John's Regatta Committee registered in Corporation No. l549 in the Registry of Corporations for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Sponsor

(cc) - "Sponsor" means any person organization or corporation lending support to a crew.

Substitute
Coxswain

(dd) - "Substitute Coxswain" means a registered coxswain permitted to participate in a Time Trial heat or Regatta Day race pursuant to Rule 5.27.

Substitute
Oarsperson

(ee) - "Substitute Oarsperson" means a registered oarsperson permitted to participate in a Time Trial heat or Regatta Day race pursuant to Rule 5.27.

Ten Minute
Rule

(ff) - "Ten Minute Rule" means the rule in place from time to time pursuant to Rule 5.13 hereof relating to the commencement of Time Trial heats or Regatta Day events.