CO129-536-10 Need for leglisation concerning number of certificated officers carried on passenger ships 18-11-1931 - 15-6-1932 — Page 58

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Governments. Such a clause would not add to detract from existing practice as regards the supervision of foreign vessels, but, in so far as supervision may be exercised by one ratifying country over vessels belonging to another ratifying country, would tend to avoid friction between the countries concerned and allow of some measure of cooperation between them; it would in effect be a corollary of the principle, underlying the provisions which it has been proposed above to include in the draft in respect of national vessels, that the super- vision of the enforcement of the rules of the draft is essentially the task of the authorities of the country of the vessel.