Regulation 7 Amendment of the Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers) Regulations 1985

For the heading to regulation 5 and paragraph (1) of that regulation there shall be substituted the following heading and paragraph:

“Equivalent foreign certificates, and certificates equivalent to a certificate of competency

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(1)

The Secretary of State may specify that the standard of competence to be attained by deck officers of any description is, in whole or in part, the standard of competence required for the issue of a certificate of competence by an authority empowered in that behalf by the laws of a specified country outside the United Kingdom.”.