Hong Kong Regulations

MERCHANT SHIPPING (SEAFARERS) (CERTIFICATION OF OFFICERS) REGULATION - SECT 19

Certificates issued under the repealed Regulations deemed to be certificates issued under this Regulation

(1) Any certificate issued under a provision of the repealed  Regulations and
in force immediately before the commencement of this Regulation shall be
deemed to be a certificate issued under the corresponding provision of this
Regulation and shall be subject to the same qualifications and limitations, if
any, as were endorsed on that certificate immediately before that
commencement, and the provisions of this Regulation shall apply accordingly.

(2) Any certificate issued under a provision of the repealed  Regulations
which was, immediately before the commencement of this Regulation, suspended
under the repealed Regulations shall, subject to subsection (3), be deemed,
for the purposes of subsection (1), to be in force immediately before that
commencement.

(3) Where any certificate issued under a provision of the repealed 
Regulations is deemed by virtue of subsection (1) to be a certificate issued
under a corresponding provision of this Regulation and was, immediately before
the commencement of this Regulation, suspended under a provision of the
repealed Regulations, then that certificate shall, in the like manner, be
deemed to be suspended under the corresponding provision of this Regulation
for the period concerned of such suspension left to serve immediately before
that commencement, and the provisions of this Regulation shall apply
accordingly.

(4) For the purposes of this section, a reference in a certificate
first-mentioned in subsection (1) to a dynamically supported ship shall be
deemed to be a reference to a high-speed craft. (Enacted 1995)