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8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a certificate of fitness to work as a fisherman which has been issued to a person by an authority empowered to issue such certificates by the laws of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom specified by the Secretary of State in Merchant Shipping Notice 1815 Amendment 2 is, for the purposes of regulations 4, 5 and 7, and for the purposes of regulation 10, other than regulation 10(1)(d), equivalent to a medical fitness certificate.
(2) A certificate issued before these Regulations come into force will cease to be valid —
(a)on the date specified on the certificate; or
(b)if earlier, 30th November 2020.
(3) A certificate to which paragraph (1) applies is not equivalent to a medical fitness certificate unless it is issued in English, or in English and another language.
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