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MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894 - SECT 92



92.(1) Every British foreign-going ship and every British
home trade passenger ship, when going to sea from any place in the United
Kingdom, [every ship registered in the United Kingdom, being a
foreign-going ship or a home trade passenger ship, when going to sea from a
place outside the United Kingdom,] and every foreign steamship carring
passengers between places in the United Kingdom, shall be provided with
officers duly certificated under this Act according to the following scale:

(a)In any case with a duly certificated master:

(i)mate in the case of a home trade passenger ship;

(ii)second mate in the case of a foreign-going sailing ship of not more than
two hundred tons burden; and

<(iii)only mate in the case of any other foreign-going ship:]


(c)If the ship is a foreign-going ship, and carries more than one mate, with
at least the first and second mate duly certificated:

(d)If the ship is a foreign-going steamship of one hundred nominal horse-power
or upwards, with at least two engineers, one of whom shall be a first-class
and the other a first-class or second-class engineer duly certificated:

(e)If the ship is a foreign-going steamship of less than one hundred nominal
horse-power, or a sea-going home trade passenger steamship, with at least one
engineer who is a first-class or second-class engineer duly certificated.

[(1A) If, on an occasion on which a ship of a particular description
registered in the United Kingdom, being a foreign-going ship or a
home trade passenger ship, goes to sea from a place outside the United
Kingdom, one, but only one, of the duly certificated officers with which a
ship of that description is required to be provided by the foregoing
provisions of this section is not provided, but all reasonable steps were
taken to secure the provision on that occasion of a duly certificated person
as that officer, so much of the foregoing subsection as requires a ship of
that description to be provided with that officer when going to sea from a
place outside the United Kingdom shall not apply to the ship during whichever
is the shorter of the following periods beginning with the day on which the
ship goes to sea from that place on that occasion, that is to say

(a)the period of twenty-eight days; and

(b)the period ending with the day on which the ship is provided with a duly
certificated person as that officer.]

[(2) If the requirements of subsection (1) of this section are not complied
with in a case in which they apply to a ship, the master or owner of the ship
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.]

(3) An officer shall not be deemed duly certificated, within the meaning of
this section, unless he is the holder for the time being of a valid
certificate of competency under this Act of a grade appropriate to his station
in the ship, or of a higher grade.][


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