4. The main disadvantages referred to above are the
following:
(A) The requirement that the Master, Chief Officer and
Chief Engineer must be British subjects
(3)
The slow and complicated procedures for enabling
the terms of international shipping conventions to
be applied to Bermuda.
(C) The residual power of Her Majesty's Government to
veto the sale or mortgage of ships on the, Bermudian
.register.
(D). The difficulty of establishing what shipping legis-
lation is in fact applicable to Bermuda.
5.
Requirements with regard to Master, Chief Officer and Chief Engineer
STAMEN ACHTER DE " Joneskorý
So far as U.K. legislation applied to Bermuda is
concerned there is no requirement as to nationality, but
the effect of the examination regulations made pursuant
to the Merchant Shipping Acts is that only British
subjects can acquire the certificates of competence
necessary to qualify as Master, Chief Officer and Chief
Engineer.
The situation created by this requirement has
become extremely difficult. There is a world-wido
shortage of British officers and crews, and the shortage
is likely to become progressively worse, owing to the
lack of now entrants into the merchant service. Somo
owners with`ships already on the Bermudian register may
well feel obliged to transfor their existing ships to
2.