Regulations Governing the Installation and Use of Ship Radio Stations Article 3
The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:1. Ship radio station refers to the transmitting or receiving radio equipment or automatic distress alert equipment installed on board for communications.2. Distress communications refers to communications related to immediate danger, such as fire, explosions, flooding, collision, stranding, capsizing, sinking, out-of-control drifting, armed attack, other maritime disasters, abandoning the ship, performing and coordinating search and rescue, or individuals falling overboard, etc.3. Emergency communications refers to communications related to emergencies, such as ship mechanical failure, loss of cargo, medical assistance or severely blocked navigation.4. Safety communications refers to communications related to navigation safety such as meteorology, hydrology, visibility, drifting objects, etc. during sailing.5. Maritime mobile service identity refers to that being used in maritime mobile service and satellite maritime mobile service as the identifier of the unique identification of ship radio station, ship earth station, coast station, coast earth station or other stations in accordance with the Radio Regulations of International Telecommunications Union.
中文原文 船舶無線電臺設置使用管理辦法第3條
本辦法用詞，定義如下：
一、船舶無線電臺：指於船舶上裝設供通信使用之無線電收發信設備或遇險自動通報設備。
二、遇險通信：指船舶遭受火災、爆炸、浸水、碰撞、擱淺、傾覆、沉船、失控漂流、武裝攻擊、其他海難事件、棄船、執行與協調搜救或人員落海等，有立即危險之虞之相關通信。
三、緊急通信：指船舶機件故障、貨物流失、醫療援助或航行嚴重受阻等緊急事件相關通信。
四、安全通信：指船舶航行時涉及氣象、水文、能見度與漂流物等航行安全相關通信。
五、水上行動業務識別碼：指依照國際電信聯合會無線電規則規定，使用於水上行動業務及衛星水上行動業務，作為唯一識別船舶無線電臺、船舶地球電臺、海岸電臺、海岸地球電臺或其他電臺之識別碼。
一、船舶無線電臺：指於船舶上裝設供通信使用之無線電收發信設備或遇險自動通報設備。
二、遇險通信：指船舶遭受火災、爆炸、浸水、碰撞、擱淺、傾覆、沉船、失控漂流、武裝攻擊、其他海難事件、棄船、執行與協調搜救或人員落海等，有立即危險之虞之相關通信。
三、緊急通信：指船舶機件故障、貨物流失、醫療援助或航行嚴重受阻等緊急事件相關通信。
四、安全通信：指船舶航行時涉及氣象、水文、能見度與漂流物等航行安全相關通信。
五、水上行動業務識別碼：指依照國際電信聯合會無線電規則規定，使用於水上行動業務及衛星水上行動業務，作為唯一識別船舶無線電臺、船舶地球電臺、海岸電臺、海岸地球電臺或其他電臺之識別碼。