42.—(1) This Part applies to every sea-going hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom which was constructed on or after 1st January 1996.
(2) The owner of a hovercraft to which this Part applies must ensure that a seafarer serving on board a hovercraft to which this regulation applies has completed the training specified in section 18.3.3 of the High Speed Craft Code.
(3) A person providing the training referred to in paragraph (2) must issue documentary evidence to every person successfully completing such training.
(4) In the case of a master or an officer, the documentary evidence must be a certificate in the form specified by the Secretary of State in Merchant Shipping Notice 1740(M) and the certificate must be endorsed in a manner so specified.
43. Regulations 28 to 30, 34 and 37 to 39 apply to certificates issued under regulation 42 as they apply to certificates issued under Part 2.
44. The Secretary of State may grant to the owner of a hovercraft, on such terms, if any, as may be specified, exemptions from any of the requirements of regulation 42 for classes of case or individual cases, and may amend or cancel any exemptions so granted.