Extract from Draft International Agreement
on Conditions for Registration of Ships
United Nations Conference
on Conditions for Registration of Ships
Annex C
[Article 5]
PARTICIPATION BY NATIONALS IN THE MANNING
AND/OR OWNERSHIP OF VESSELS
With respect to the provisions concerning the
manning and ownership of vessels as contained in paragraphs
1 to 3 of Article 6 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 8,
respectively, and without prejudice to the application of
any other article of this Agreement, a State of registration
shall apply as mandatory either the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 3 of Article 6 or of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Articles 8.
1.
Article 6]
MANNING OF VESSELS
A State of registration, when implementing this
Agreement, ishall] [should] observe the principle that a
satisfactory part of the complement consisting of officers
and crew of merchant ships flying the flag of a State of
registration be nationals or persons domiciled or lawfully
in permanent residence in the State of registration.
2.
In pursuance of this goal, and in taking necessary
measures, the State of registration shall should] have
regard to the following: