Regulation 8 Availability of certificates and requirements for appropriate documentation

(1)

For regulation 20 of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following:—

“Availability of certificates

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The owner and master of every ship issued with a Convention Certificate shall ensure that it is readily available on board for examination at all times.”

(2)

In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations:

(a)

at the beginning of each sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (1A) below”;

(b)

after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following:—

“(1A)

In the case of a cargo ship of 500 tons gross tonnage or more engaged on international voyages, as an alternative to the certificates required by paragraph 1(b) and (c) above, a Cargo Ship Safety Certificate may be issued.”; and

(c)

in paragraph (4), for the words after “documentation which shows that” there shall be substituted the words “the ship has been surveyed for compliance with regulations 4 to 7 as though it were a United Kingdom ship”.