Section 91: Ships to be provided with certificated officers

91. Ships to be provided with certificated officers.—(1) Every Pakistani ship when going to sea from any port or place shall be provided with minimum number of duly certificated officers and ratings for various categories of ships as may be prescribed by the Federal Government. (2) The Federal Government may, by order, exempt, subject to such terms and conditions as it may think fit to impose, any ship or class of ship from any of the manning requirements as set out under sub-section (1). (3) Nothing in this section which relates to engineers shall apply to any ship to which the provisions of the Inland Mechanically Propelled Vessels Act, 1917 (I of 1917), apply as long as such ship is employed on voyages confined to ports or places within the same province. (4) If any person— (a) having been engaged as one of the officers mentioned in sub-section (1) goes to sea as such officer without being duly certificated or, as the case may be, approved, or (b) employs a person as an officer without ascertaining that the person so employed is duly certificated or, as the case may be approved: shall, for each offence, be liable to fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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