Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (CERTIFICATION OF OFFICERS) REGULATION - SECT 12

Lost, etc., certificates

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a certificate issued to any person has
been lost, defaced or destroyed, the Authority may, upon payment of the
prescribed fee, issue to the person another certificate in like terms, and any
such certificate so issued shall, for the purposes of this Regulation, have
the same effect as the certificate lost, defaced or destroyed, as the case may
be.

(2) The Authority-

   (a)  shall not issue a certificate pursuant to subsection (1) to a person
        unless the person supplies the Authority with such information as the
        Authority requires to satisfy the Authority that the certificate which
        it will replace has in fact been lost, defaced or destroyed; and

   (b)  may waive or reduce the prescribed fee referred to in subsection (1)
        where he is satisfied that the certificate concerned has been lost,
        defaced or destroyed without fault on the part of the person to whom
        it was issued. (Enacted 1995)