The Merchant Shipping (Certification of Deck Officers and Marine Engineer Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Provided that–

i

a deck officer holding a certificate as Skipper (Full) issued under section 414 of the Act of 1894, or a certificate as Deck Officer (Fishing Vessel) Class I issued pursuant to section 43 of the Act of 1970, may be substituted for any of the qualified deck officers required to be carried, subject to the officer in command having served for not less than 12 months in a capacity not lower than second in command of the same type of vessel; on production of evidence of 12 months satisfactory service acceptable to the Secretary of State the deck officer concerned shall be entitled to have added to his certificate a statement of qualification to serve in command of a stand-by vessel or a seismic and oceanographic survey vessel as the case may be;

ii

where the minimum number of qualified deck officers of any class required to be carried is 2 or 3, a person holding a certificate as Second Hand (Full) or as Deck Officer (Fishing Vessel) Class 2 may be substituted for the second or third of these qualified deck officers, and where the minimum number of qualified deck officers of any class required to be carried is 3, a person holding a certificate as Second Hand (Special) may be substituted for the third such qualified officer.

stand-by or seismicand oceanographic survey vessels of under 3,000 kilowatts registered power within the limited European trading area or under 1,500 kilowatts registered power in any other trading area.