Cap. 234 ст. 220Cargo ships safety equipment 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 rules for life-saving appliances applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as she is to be engaged on, and that she is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making fog-signals required by the collision regulations, 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 certificate issued under this sub-article is in this Act referred to as a "safety equipment 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 rules for life-saving appliances, from any of the requirements of those rules applicable to the ship and to such international voyages as she is to be engaged on, and that she complies with the rest of those requirements and is properly provided with the lights, shapes and means of making fog-signals required by the collision regulations, 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 safety equipment certificate".