Regulation 16 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Marine Engineer Officers and Licensing of Marine Engine Operators) Regulations 1986

Regulation 4(2) shall be replaced by the following:

“(2)

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, for the purposes of these Regulations an engineer officer shall be qualified if he is the holder for the time being of:

(i)

a certificate of competency issued under these Regulations; or

(ii)

a certificate which is to be treated as equivalent of such a certificate of competency by virtue of regulation 6(2) below; or

(iii)

an equivalent foreign certificate, and a certificate of equivalent competency;

and if also, at the material time, the certificate, or certificates, are in force in relation to the person named in it and are of a class appropriate to the engineer officer’s capacity in the ship.

(b)

(i)

Notwithstanding sub-paragraph (a)(iii) above, before 1st August 1997 an officer who is the holder of a certificate issued prior to that date by a relevant country shall be qualified for the purpose of these Regulations, provided that at any material time prior to 1st August 1997 such certificate held by him is in force in relation to the person named in it and is of a class appropriate to the officer’s capacity in that ship.

(ii)

In this sub-paragraph “relevant country” means a country specified by the Secretary of State as a country whose certificates were recognised immediately prior to 1st August 1995 as having the same force as certificates under the Regulations.”.