A 4
CAP. 281]
Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations
[1981 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(b) In these regulations, in references to "a class appropriate to the station", the class appropriate to a particular station shall be determined according to the following list-
Appropriate class
Station
Deck Officer Department-
Class 1
Master
Class 2
First Mate
Class 3
Second Mate
Class 4
Third Mate
Marine Engineer/Officer Department-
L.N. 369/81.
Application. L.N. 369/81.
(Cap. 313.)
$
3.
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3
Class 4
Provided that-
Chief Engineer
Second Engineer
Third Engineer
Fourth Engineer:
(i) nothing in these regulations shall prohibit an officer who holds a certificate of a particular class from manning a station lower in the list in his department than that appropriate to that class;
(ii) in the case of a ship mentioned in items 4 and 5 of the table in regulation 13(1), an engineer officer holding a Class 4 certificate may man a station as Third Engineer;
(iii) in the case of a ship mentioned in item 5 of the table in regulation 13(1), an engineer officer holding a Class 2 certificate may man a station as Chief Engineer and an engineer officer holding a Class 3 certificate may man a station as Second Engineer;
(iv) nothing in these regulations shall authorize an officer to man a station in a ship in respect of which he is not qualified by the terms of his certificate; and
(v) no class of certificate relating to river trade shall be an appropriate class to man any station in a ship proceeding on a voyage not confined to river trade limits.
(1) These regulations apply to
(a) all ships that are registered by the Registrar of British ships appointed to act in the Colony under the Merchant Shipping Acts; except those vessels to which Part IV of the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance applies; and
(b) all other ships, being passenger ships, carrying passengers to or from the Colony from or to a place outside the Colony.
(2) The Director may permit exemptions from all or any provisions of these regulations in respect of any case or class of case.