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The Merchant Shipping (Boatmasters' Qualifications, Crew and Hours of Work) Regulations 2015
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9.—(1) Subject to regulations 10 to 12, for the purposes of sections 49 (prohibition of going to sea undermanned) and 52 (unqualified persons going to sea as qualified officers or seamen) of the Act, a boatmaster is not qualified to serve as master of a vessel unless that boatmaster holds—
(a)a boatmaster's licence of the Tier and level specified in column (1) of Table 2 in Regulation 14 which authorises that person to serve as master of the vessel being navigated in the category of waters in which it is being navigated, together with—
(i)the endorsements listed in that Table, or an equivalent qualification specified by the Secretary of State, which are required to authorise that person to serve as master on that vessel or engage in operations which the vessel is undertaking, and
(ii)unless regulation 12 applies, the relevant local knowledge endorsements which are required by regulation 17 to authorise the master to navigate the waters being navigated; [F1or]
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(d)such other qualification, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions, as may be specified by the Secretary of State.
(2) A person does not contravene this regulation while that person —
(a)is navigating a vessel as part of the qualifying service required under regulations 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 F4... under the direction of a person who is qualified in accordance with this regulation,
(b)is undergoing a practical test of seamanship and vessel handling skill which is—
(i)conducted on board a vessel of a kind reasonably representative of the class of vessel the command of which the licence or endorsement would authorise, and
(ii)in waters appropriate to that class of licence or endorsement, or
(c)is authorised to serve as master of a vessel under regulation 50.
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F1Word in reg. 9(1)(a)(ii) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Reg. 9(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Reg. 9(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in reg. 9(2)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Inland Waterways) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/808), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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