Cap. 234 ст. 219Cargo ship safety construction certificates and exemption certificates.

(1) If the Minister, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of a Maltese ship, not being a passenger ship, is satisfied that the ship complies with the construction and survey rules applicable to the ship and to such voyages as she is to be engaged on, he shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship a certificate showing that the ship complies with such of the requirements of the Safety Convention relating to those matters as are applicable as aforesaid, and any such certificate is in this Act referred to as a "cargo ship safety construction certificate".

(2) If the Minister, on receipt of declarations of survey in respect of any such ship as aforesaid, is satisfied that the ship is exempt, by virtue of any exercise by him of a power in that behalf conferred on him by this Act or by the construction and survey rules, from any of the requirements of those rules applicable to the ship and to such voyages as she is to be engaged on, and that she complies with the rest of those requirements, he shall, on the application of the owner, issue in respect of the ship -

(a) an exemption certificate stating which of the requirements of the Safety Convention applicable as aforesaid the ship is exempt from and that the exemption is conditional on the ship’s plying only on the voyages, and complying with the other conditions (if any) specified in the certificate; and

(b) a certificate showing that the ship complies with the rest of those requirements; and any certificate issued under paragraph (b) is in this Act referred to as a "qualified cargo ship safety construction certificate".