Section 56 Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships.F1C1

The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section ninety-two of the principal Act (which relates to the certificates of competency to be held by officers of ships):—

“(b)

If the ship is of one hundred tons burden or upwards with at least one officer besides the master holding a certificate not lower than that of—

(i)

mate in the case of a home trade passenger ship;

(ii)

secound mate in the case of a foreign-going sailing ship of not more than two hundred tons burden ; and

(iii)

only mate in the case of any other foreign-going ship.”