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QUESTION 6
contracting countries to provide an efficient inspecting agency to ensure the observance of the provisions of the Draft Convention on vessels to which the national law applies. The Draft Convention might also require that the national laws should empower the national authorities to detain any vessel, to which the national laws apply, not carrying the requisite number of certificated officers.
The Government of India further consider that, if the Draft Convention is to be effective in ensuring that officers in charge of a watch are qualified to perform the duties of their posts, it should include proposals on the lines of Questions 4, 5 and 6.
IRISH FREE STATE
6. The reply is in the affirmative.
ITALY
6. The Italian Government considers it desirable that the Draft Convention should contain special provisions for supervising the enforcement of the rules contained therein, and in particular agrees as to the desirability of empowering the competent authorities to detain any vessel whose staff of officers is not composed in conformity with the principles above set out. It also suggests the desirability of providing in the Draft Convention that, in case any doubts arise as to the regularity of any certificate, the question shall be submitted to the consul of the country in which such certificate was granted.
6.
JAPAN
While we agree in principle to Question 6, we consider it appropriate that measures for the supervision of this kind should be taken as the countries concerned deem suitable.
LATVIA
6. Supervision of the enforcement of the rules of the Draft Convention should be ensured by the national authorities for ships flying the national flag.
NETHERLANDS
6. See the reply to Question 5. As the safety of navigation on this point has been completely regulated in the London Convention of May 1929, there is no reason for regulating the point again.
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