Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (CERTIFICATION OF OFFICERS) REGULATION - SECT 11

Form, validity, record and surrender of certificates

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART VI

GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTIFICATES

(1) A certificate of competency shall be issued on payment of the prescribed
fee, and shall be delivered to the person entitled to the certificate. (L.N.
105 of 1998)

(2) Any certificate of competency may be issued by the Authority in respect of
a limited period of time and such certificate shall be invalid on the expiry
of that period of time unless the holder has obtained an extension of its
validity.

(3) A record of all certificates of competency issued under this Regulation
and of the suspension, cancellation or alteration of, and any other matters
affecting, certificates shall be kept in such manner as the Authority
requires.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), where the holder of a certificate of competency
of a particular class issued under this Regulation is issued with a
certificate of a higher class, he shall surrender the certificate of the lower
class to the Authority.

(5) Where the holder of a certificate of competency issued under this
Regulation (other than a river trade class of certificate of competency) has
qualified for the issue of a river trade class of certificate of competency,
the Authority may endorse that first-mentioned certificate to that effect and,
accordingly, this Regulation shall apply to that first-mentioned certificate
as so endorsed, and the holder thereof, as if that first-mentioned certificate
as so endorsed was also a certificate of the class to which the endorsement
relates. (Enacted 1995)