Cap. 234 Art. 246Further provisions as to production of Convention certificate.

(1) The master of every foreign Safety Convention ship shall produce to the officer from whom a clearance for the ship is demanded in respect of an international voyage from a port in

Malta accepted Safety Convention certificates that are the equivalent of certificates issued by the Minister under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act that would be required to be in force in respect of the ship if she were a Maltese ship, and a clearance shall not be granted, and the ship may be detained, until such certificates are so produced.

(2) The production of an accepted Safety Convention certificate being the equivalent of -

(a) a qualified certificate; or

(b) an exemption certificate, other than a certificate stating that a ship is wholly exempt from the provisions of the Safety Convention relating to radiotelegraphy, radiotelephony and direction-finders, shall not avail for the purposes of either of the last two preceding articles unless there is also produced the corresponding exemption certificate or qualified certificate as the case may be.

Exemption from safety requirements and Interpretation