Regulation 11 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1985

In regulation 18, there shall be inserted after the first sentence the following sentence:

“If either of those officers is the holder of a certificate of equivalent competency, then either his equivalent foreign certificate or his certificate of equivalent competency shall have been appropriately endorsed by the issuing authority (in the case of an equivalent foreign certificate) or the Secretary of State (in the case of a certificate of equivalent competency).”