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1981 Ed.]

Merchant Shipping (Safety)

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he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship—

(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Convention, being requirements the subject of the life-saving appliances regulations and the fire-fighting appliances regulations and applicable as aforesaid, the ship is exempt from, and that the exemption is conditional on the ship's plying only on the voyages and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and (ii) a qualified cargo ship safety equipment certificate showing

that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements.

18. (1) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a ship registered in Hong Kong not being a passenger ship, is satisfied that the ship complies with the radio regulations and the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on, he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship a cargo ship safety radio certificate showing that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the Convention relating to radiotel- egraphy, radiotelephony, radio navigational aids and direction- finders as are applicable.

(2) If the Director, on receipt of a declaration of survey in respect of a ship to which subsection (1) applies, is satisfied--

(a) that the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power in that behalf conferred on him by this Ordinance or conferred on him by the regulations in question, from any of the requirements of the radio regulations or the navigational equipment regulations applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as it is to be engaged on; and

(b) that it complies with the rest of the requirements of those

regulations,

he shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue in respect of the ship-

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(i) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Convention relating to radiotelegraphy, radiotel- ephony, radio navigational aids and direction-finders, be- ing requirements applicable as aforesaid, the ship is exempt from, and that the exemption is conditional on the ship's plying only on the voyages and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and

(ii) a qualified cargo ship safety radio certificate showing that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements.

(3) Where any ship registered in Hong Kong is wholly exempt from the requirements of the radio regulations and the navigational equipment regulations, the Director shall, on the application of the owner, agent or master, issue an exemption certificate stating that

Issue for cargo ships of radio certificates and

exemption certificates.