# Merchant Shipping Act 1906, Section 56: Secound mate certificates allowed in small foreign-going sailing ships. 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):โ€” โ€œ(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 ofโ€” (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.โ€ --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/48/section/56 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1906/section-56 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.