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Merchant Shipping (Certification of Officers) Regulations

[1981 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

(b) In these regulations, in references to "a class appropriate to the station", the class appropriate to a particular station shall be determined according to the following list-

Appropriate class

Station

Deck Officer Department-

Class 1

Master

Class 2

First Mate

Class 3

Second Mate

Class 4

Third Mate

Marine Engineer/Officer Department-

L.N. 369 81.

Application. L.N. 369/81.

(Cap. 313.)

$

3.

Class 1

Class 2

Class 3

Class 4

Provided that-

Chief Engineer

Second Engineer

Third Engineer Fourth Engineer:

(i) nothing in these regulations shall prohibit an officer who holds a certificate of a particular class from manning a station lower in the list in his department than that appropriate to that class;

(ii)-in-the-case-of-a-ship-mentioned-in-items-4 and 5 of the table in regulation 13(1), an engineer officer holding a Class 4 certificate may man a station as Third Engineer;

(iii) in the case of a ship mentioned in item 5 of the table in regulation 13(1), an engineer officer holding a Class 2 certificate may man a station as Chief Engineer and an engineer officer holding a Class 3 certificate may man a station as Second Engineer;

(iv) nothing in these regulations shall authorize an officer to man a station in a ship in respect of which he is not qualified by the terms of his certificate; and

(v) no class of certificate relating to river trade shall be an appropriate class to man any station in a ship proceed- ing on a voyage not confined to river trade limits.

(1) These regulations apply to

(a) all ships that are registered by the Registrar of British ships appointed to act in the Colony under the Merchant Ship- ping Acts; except those vessels to which Part IV of the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance applies; and

(b) all other ships, being passenger ships, carrying passengers to or/from the Colony from or to a place outside the Colony.

(2) The Director may permit exemptions from all or any provisions of these regulations in respect of any case or class of case.