S.L. 234.46 Art. 6Prohibition of proceeding to sea without appropriate certificate.

(1) No Maltese ship to which Article 7 of the Bunkers

Convention applies shall proceed or attempt to proceed to sea unless there is in force in respect of the ship the certificate referred to in Article 7(2) to the Bunkers Convention.

(2) No foreign flagged ship to which Article 7 of the Bunkers Convention applies shall proceed or attempt to proceed to ports, installations or the territorial waters of Malta unless there is in force in respect of the ship the certificate referred to in Article 7(2) of the Bunkers Convention.

(3) The master of every ship to which sub-regulation (2) applies shall, at the time when clearance for the ship is demanded, produce to the officer from whom such clearance is demanded, the certificate referred to in the said subregulation, and clearance shall not be granted, until the said certificate is so produced.