S.L. 234.51 Art. 4Power to make recommendations.

The Registrar-General may either on a case by case basis or through the issue of Merchant Shipping Notices -

(a) determine, lay down, prescribe, set or specify what may be required to be determined, laid down, prescribed, set or specified by these rules or by the Convention, or expound on the requirements of these rules or of such Convention or clarify their applicability or interpretation; and

(b) extend any of the provisions of the Convention to other classes of Maltese ships, or to other classes of ships when they are in Maltese waters;

and in so doing, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Registrar-General shall be guided by the circulars, clarifications, codes, decisions, directives, guidelines, instruments, interpretations, manuals, notices, publications, recommendations, regulations, resolutions, rules or any other similar medium of the International Labour Organisation or any other body or organisation with an appropriate knowledge or competence on the subject matter.