Section 261: Ships with certificates of survey or certificates of partial survey granted outside

261. Ships with certificates of survey or certificates of partial survey granted outside Pakistan.—(1) When a ship is required to be furnished with a certificate of survey and the Federal Government is satisfied by the production of a certificate of survey— (a) that the ship has been officially surveyed at a port in a country outside Pakistan; (b) that the requirement of this Ordinance are proved, by that survey, to have been substantially compiled with; and (c) that certificates of survey granted under this Chapter are accepted in such country in lieu of the corresponding certificates required under the laws in force in that country, the Federal Government may, if it thinks fit, dispense with any further survey of the ship in respect of the requirements so complied with, and give a certificate which shall have the same effect as a certificate given after survey. (2) When the Federal Government has, by notification in the official Gazette, declared that it is satisfied that an official survey at a port in a country outside Pakistan specified in the declaration is such as to prove that the requirements of this Ordinance have been substantially complied with, any person authorised by the Federal Government in this behalf may exercise the power, to dispense with a survey and to give a certificate, conferred on the Federal Government by sub-section (1) in the case of any ship furnished with a valid certificate of survey granted at such port. (3) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall be applicable in the case of ships furnished with valid certificates of partial survey including docking certificates, as if they were ships furnished with like certificates granted at ports in countries outside Pakistan subject to the modification that the powers of the Federal Government under the said sub-section may be exercised by any person authorised by the Federal Government in this behalf.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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