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Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations
[1981 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(S.I. 1980/2025.)
(4) Certificates of service as Marine Engineer Officer Class 3 or 4 of a foreign-going ship granted by the Director shall be equivalent, respectively, to Certificates of Competency as Marine Engineer Officer Class 3 or Class 4.
(5) A certificate of service as First Class Engineer or Second Class Engineer 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 Marine Engineer Officer) Regulations 1980.
(6) A certificate of service (Marine Engineer Officer) (River Trade) Class 3 granted by the Director shall be equivalent to a Certificate of Competency (Marine Engineer Officer) (River Trade) Class 3 issued under these regulations.
General standards and conditions for the issue of certificates.
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(a) PART IV GENERAL STANDARDS AND CONDITIONS
(1) The Director may make rules prescribing-
the standards of competency to be attained and the conditions to be satisfied by a person or class of persons to qualify for certificates of competency or a certificate of competency of a particular class under these regulations;
(b) the standards of competency to be attained and the conditions to be satisfied by a person or class of persons seeking endorsements to their certificates to qualify them in respect of particular ships, particular classes of ships, or ships carrying particular cargoes or particular classes of cargoes;
(c) the conditions to be established by a person seeking an extension of the validity of his certificate; and
(d) the manner in which the attainment of any such standards or the satisfaction of any such conditions is to be established.
(2) The Director may publish the rules made under paragraph (1) in such manner as he thinks fit and shall, on payment of the appropriate fee, provide a copy of the rules to any person.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations or the rules made under paragraph (1), the Director shall not issue any certificate unless he is satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to be a holder of the certificate and to act competently in the capacity to which it relates.