Regulation 8 Certificate equivalent to a Certificate of Competency

The Secretary of State may specify that the standard of competence to be attained by ships' cooks may be the standard of competence required for the issue of a certificate of competency by an authority empowered in that behalf by the laws of a country outside the United Kingdom, and that a certificate issued by any such authority shall be treated as evidence of the attainment of a standard of competence equivalent to the standard required for the issue of a certificate of competency under these Regulations:

Provided that any certificate issued by any such authority to any such ship's cook which is expressed to remain in force for a definite period shall remain in force, unless renewed, only until the expiration of that period.