Merchant Shipping Act 1995 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Manning and Certification
47. Manning and certification
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requiring ships to carry any number of qualified officers of any description, qualified doctors and any number of qualified or other seamen of any description that may be specified in the regulations;
prescribing standards of competence to be attained and other conditions to be satisfied (subject to any exemptions allowed by or under the regulations) by officers and other seamen of any description in order to be qualified for the purposes of this section; and
providing that existing certificates, except in such cases as are specified in the regulations, are deemed for the purposes of this Act to be issued pursuant to this section and to confer on the persons to whom they are issued any qualifications that may be specified in the regulations.
In subsection (1), “existing certificate” means a certificate granted before 1 August 1986.
Without limiting paragraph (b) of subsection (1), the conditions prescribed or specified under that paragraph may include conditions as to nationality and regulations made for the purposes of that paragraph may make provision for —
the manner in which the attainment of any standard or the satisfaction of any other condition is to be evidenced;
the conduct of any examination, the condition for admission to the examination and the appointment and remuneration of examiners; and
the issue, surrender, replacement, form and recording of certificates and other documents.