Section 124: Rules relating to safe manning

124. Rules relating to safe manning.—(1) The Federal Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules regulating the issuance of minimum safe manning certificate to ships of any class or type, provided any shortage of the officers or ratings listed in such certificate owing to unavoidable circumstances during a voyage shall not render her undermanned for the purposes of this Ordinance until the voyage is completed. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matter, namely :–– (a) the rating of seamen other than officers; (b) the minimum and maximum age limits, qualifications and experience required for each rating; and (c) the number of each rating to be carried on board a ship having regard to her tonnage, mode of propulsion, daily consumption of fuel, number of passengers she is certified to carry and the life saving appliances carried thereon.

Effective date: 2001-01-01

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