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Merchant Shipping
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Standards of competency of officers and other seamen.
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(a) he has reached such minimum age as may be prescribed;
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(b) he has performed such qualifying service at sea as may be
prescribed; and
(c) he has passed such examination as may be prescribed:
Provided that such rules may authorize the grant of such a certificate to any person, notwithstanding that he has not complied with the conditions aforesaid, if he shows, in such manner as may be prescribed, that he was serving as A.B., or in an equivalent or superior deck rating, on the date on which the rules came into force, or has so served at any time before that date. (Added, 53 of 1978, s. 3)
(3) The Director may publish any rules made under subsection (2) in such manner as he thinks fit, and shall, on payment of the appropriate charge, provide a copy of the rules to any person who applies to him in that behalf.
(4) The grant of a certificate of competency shall be subject to production of evidence of experience and ability to the satisfaction of the Director, and the Director may refuse to accept an application for examination unless such evidence is first produced. (Amended, 62 of 1981, s. 5)
(5) [Deleted, 62 of 1981, s. 5]
(Amended, 73 of 1974, s. 2)
6A. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following matters-
(a) the classes of officers and of other seamen in the mercantile
marine;
(b) the classes of certificates of competency or of service required in respect of each class of officer or of other seaman;
(c) the standards of competency to be attained and other conditions to be satisfied to qualify an officer or other seaman for the grant of any particular class of certificate
(d) examinations as a test, or part of a test, for the grant of any particular class of certificate
(e) the method of granting certificates and the issue of certificates and copies of certificates, by the Director;
(f) the recognition of other qualifications as equivalent to certificates issued by the Director;
(g) the additional training, experience and other qualifications required for officers and other seamen manning particular ships, or particular classes of ships, or ships carrying particular cargoes, or particular classes of cargoes, or proceeding on particular voyages, or particular classes of voyages;