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Merchant Shipping (Navigational Watch Ratings) Regulations
[1985 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
L.N 343/85.
Marine. The grant of such dispensation may be made subject to such conditions as to the rating's existing qualifications as the Director may think
fit.
2. The qualifications for a Navigational Watch Rating Certificate shall be that the rating either-
(a) has completed 1 year's sea service in the deck department in a navigational watchkeeping capacity within the 5 years preceding the entry into force of these regulations; or
(b) has completed not less than 6 months' sea service in the deck department
and received adequate training approved by the Director to develop-
(i) knowledge of basic principles of fire-fighting, first aid, personal survival techniques, avoidance of health hazards and personal safety:
(ii) the ability to steer and comply with helm orders, and knowledge of magnetic and gyro compasses sufficient for the performance of such duties:
(iii) the ability to keep a proper lookout by sight and hearing and to report the approximate bearing of a light or other object or of a sound signal, in degrees and points:
(iv) familiarity with the changeover from automatic pilot to hand steering and vice versa:
(v) knowledge of the internal communications and alarm systems of vessels:
(vi) knowledge of pyrotechnic distress signals:
(vii) knowledge of the emergency duties of navigational watch ratings:
(viii) knowledge of nautical terms and their meanings appropriate to the duties of navigational watch ratings.
In either event the rating must satisfy the Director that he has the ability to understand and carry out orders and to make himself understood in English in matters relevant to the duties of a navigational watch rating.
3.
(a) If the rating successfully completes a course of training and examinations to qualify him as a seaman at a school or college approved by the Director, together with 2 months' sea service in the deck department associated particularly with navigational watchkeeping duties, the Director may remit the remaining 4 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in paragraph 2(b).
(b) If the rating has attended a course of training as in paragraph (a) and has failed to pass the examinations to qualify him as a seaman, but has completed 4 months' sea service in the deck department associated particularly with navigational watchkeeping duties, the Director may remit the remaining 2 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in paragraph 2(b).
(c) If the rating is the holder of an Engine Room Watch Rating Certificate issued under regulation 5 of the Merchant Shipping (Engine Room Watch Ratings) Regulations--
(i) where the rating has completed 3 months' sea service entirely in the deck department, the Director may remit the remaining 3 months of the 6 months' sea service specified in paragraph 2(b);
(ii) the 6 months' sea service specified in paragraph 2(b) may be performed in a general purpose capacity being mixed service partly in the deck department and partly in the engine department: and
(iii) the rating will be required to receive training only in respect of the matters specified in paragraph 2(b)(ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii).
4. An applicant for a Navigational Watch Rating Certificate must produce-
(a) a valid medical certificate issued under the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations or other evidence to satisfy the Director as to the state of the rating's health and eyesight; and
(b) a Steering Certificate or series of certificates showing that the rating has taken turns at the wheel in steering a ship (other than under instruction) for not less than 10 hours in total.