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Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations
[1981 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(5.1. 1980/2026.)
(1894 c. 60.)
(S.1. 1980 2026.)
(2) Certificates of competency, other than those issued under these regulations, which are specified by the Secretary of State under regulation 5(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1980 shall be evidence of the attainment of a standard of competency required for the issue of a certificate under these regulations of the same class or description.
(3) A certificate of competency as Master, First Mate and Second Mate of a foreign-going ship obtained under section 6 of the Ordinance before 1 September 1981 shall be equivalent, respectively, to a Certificate of Competency (Deck Officer) Class I (Master Mariner), a Certificate of Competency (Deck Officer) Class 2 and a Certificate of Competency (Deck Officer) Class 3, issued under these regulations.
(4) A certificate of service (Deck Officer) as Third Mate of a foreign-going ship granted by the Director shall be equivalent to a Certificate of Competency (Deck Officer) Class 4 issued under these regulations.
(5) A certificate of service as master of a foreign-going ship granted under section 99 of the principal Act shall be equivalent to a certificate of competency issued under these regulations as it is treated as equivalent to a certificate of competency issued under the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1980.
(6) A certificate of service (Deck Officer) (River Trade) Class 3 granted by the Director shall be equivalent to a Certificate of Competency (Deck Officer) (River Trade) Class 3 issued under these regulations.
Qualified engineer officers and classes of certificates.
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PART III
CERTIFICATION OF ENGINEER OFFICERS
(1) For the purposes of these regulations, an engineer officer shall be qualified—
(a) if he holds a certificate of competency as an engineer officer issued under these regulations or a certificate which is treated as equivalent to such a certificate under regulation 7; and
(b) such certificate is in force in relation to a class appropriate to the station held by him in the ship.
(2) (a) A general certificate of competency issued by the Director shall be of one of the following classes—
Certificate of Competency (Marine Engineer Officer) Class 1
Certificate of Competency (Marine Engineer Officer) Class 2